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    SubjectRe: [Bluez-devel] Oops involving RFCOMM and sysfs
    Tejun Heo wrote:
    > Eric W. Biederman wrote:
    >>> That said, the mechanism is a bit too fragile. sysfs currently ensures
    >>> that dentry/inode point to the associated sysfs_dirent. This is mainly
    >>> remanent of conversion from previous VFS based implementation. I think
    >>> the right thing to do here is to make sysfs behave like other proper
    >>> distributed filesystems using d_revalidate.
    >> Huh? We still need something like sysfs_get_dentry to find the dentries
    >> for the rename or move operation. So we can call d_move.
    >
    > Ah... right. Thanks. :-)

    On the second thought, can't those too be dealt with d_revalidate?

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    tejun


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