Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:12:26 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 06/15] sysfs: Fix locking and factor out sysfs_sd_setattr |
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:07:11PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes: > > > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:27:04PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> > >> > >> Cleanly separate the work that is specific to setting the > >> attributes of a sysfs_dirent from what is needed to update > >> the attributes of a vfs inode. > >> > >> Additionally grab the sysfs_mutex to keep any nasties from > >> surprising us when updating the sysfs_dirent. > >> > >> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> > >> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> > > > > Due to the extended attr work for sysfs that went into Linus's tree > > recently, this patch doesn't apply at all anymore. > > It looks like the issue is the a trivial context conflict with > sysfs-mark-a-locally-only-used-function-static.patch
Ah, sorry about that, I should have noticed that, I was looking for a much harder problem :(
I'll go queue these up in a bit.
thanks,
greg k-h
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