Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262020AbUCaPc3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:32:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262017AbUCaPc3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:32:29 -0500 Received: from ida.rowland.org ([192.131.102.52]:9220 "HELO ida.rowland.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262027AbUCaPc0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:32:26 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:32:25 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@ida.rowland.org To: David Brownell cc: Andrew Morton , Greg KH , , , , Subject: Re: Unregistering interfaces In-Reply-To: <406A0C15.7090506@pacbell.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1069 Lines: 27 On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, David Brownell wrote: > Alan Stern wrote: > > > I'm in favor of changing the behavior of sysfs, so that either it > > refuses to delete directories that contain subdirectories or else it > > recursively deletes the subdirectories first. At this point nothing has > > been settled. > > Hmm, certainly I agree khubd should be deleting things bottom-up. > > Are you say it isn't doing that already? Or that it's trying to, > but something's preventing that from working? No, no -- as far as I know khudb gets rid of things in a perfectly correct manner. But there are plenty of other parts in the Linux kernel, and I don't know that they all delete things bottom-up. Greg implies that usb-serial and the kernel's tty subsystem don't do this; I haven't had a chance to look into it. Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/