Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:34:11 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Subject: Re: Inconsistency in sysfs behavior?
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:24:08PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> The real problem was finding a way to indicate that the file was
> disconnected from its kobject.  I did that by setting
> dentry->d_inode->i_mode to 0.  (I didn't want to erase dentry->d_fsdata
> for fear that it might be needed somewhere else.)  That's definitely not a
> good way; it was intended only for my proof-of-principle.  No doubt
> someone else could do a much better job.

Because this is the hardest part, it's easier just to have the behavior
we currently have :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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