On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:36:29 +0900,
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, all.
> 
> This is subset of Eric W. Biederman's "Sysfs cleanups & tagged
> directory support" patchset[1] with the following modifications.
> 
> * fix-i_mutex-locking-in-sysfs_get_dentry patch is added at the top
>   and #14-Don_t-use-lookup_one_len_kern and
>   #15-vfs-Remove-lookup_one_len_kern are dropped.  This is because #14
>   contained had a bug where it might created dentry/inode for an
>   already deleted sysfs_dirent.  I think it's benefitial to keep
>   single lookup path.
> 
> * Rewrote simplify-sysfs_get_dentry patch and
>   #08-Implement-__sysfs_get_dentry,
>   #09-Move-sysfs_get_dentry-below-__sysfs_get_dentry and
>   #10-Rewrite-sysfs_get_dentry-in-terms-of-__sysfs_get_dentry are
>   omitted as __sysfs_get_dentry() isn't used by anyone.
> 
> * #16, 19-25 are omitted as it isn't clear yet how the tagged entry
>   support will end up.
> 
> * readdir simplification fixed.
> 
> * sysfs_mutex double locking fixed.
> 
> The patchset is on top of the current -gregkh.

Survives some casual testing (including moving devices). Patches look
sane to me at a cursory glance as well (sorry, don't have much time at
the moment).
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Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:36:29 +0900,
> Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello, all.
>>
>> This is subset of Eric W. Biederman's "Sysfs cleanups & tagged
>> directory support" patchset[1] with the following modifications.
>>
>> * fix-i_mutex-locking-in-sysfs_get_dentry patch is added at the top
>>   and #14-Don_t-use-lookup_one_len_kern and
>>   #15-vfs-Remove-lookup_one_len_kern are dropped.  This is because #14
>>   contained had a bug where it might created dentry/inode for an
>>   already deleted sysfs_dirent.  I think it's benefitial to keep
>>   single lookup path.
>>
>> * Rewrote simplify-sysfs_get_dentry patch and
>>   #08-Implement-__sysfs_get_dentry,
>>   #09-Move-sysfs_get_dentry-below-__sysfs_get_dentry and
>>   #10-Rewrite-sysfs_get_dentry-in-terms-of-__sysfs_get_dentry are
>>   omitted as __sysfs_get_dentry() isn't used by anyone.
>>
>> * #16, 19-25 are omitted as it isn't clear yet how the tagged entry
>>   support will end up.
>>
>> * readdir simplification fixed.
>>
>> * sysfs_mutex double locking fixed.
>>
>> The patchset is on top of the current -gregkh.
> 
> Survives some casual testing (including moving devices). Patches look
> sane to me at a cursory glance as well (sorry, don't have much time at
> the moment).

Thanks.

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tejun
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