Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756288AbYF2DgI (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:36:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751995AbYF2Df4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:35:56 -0400 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.190]:62583 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751756AbYF2Dfz (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:35:55 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=In4SYL/wfvY18At/NUMtblE05DJCbDUMdIZAWUimSRl3E23hD/Znk0scRlL7lUaULD +8OZoxuMag3Qix7nehHMjkKw53nYviZXJnIPap0SWFKenZYUnUJQgPgdjcfS8oztc+i5 WKa6njxJvULql5lZal3BPNSwsu2WPQ5ik7++E= Message-ID: <48670308.5020301@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:35:36 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20071114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Benjamin Thery , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton , Daniel Lezcano , Serge Hallyn , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , Linux Containers Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] sysfs: Implement sysfs_delete_link and sysfs_rename_link References: <20080618170729.808539948@theryb.frec.bull.fr> <20080618170731.153832341@theryb.frec.bull.fr> <485F06B8.6090902@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 814 Lines: 22 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Tejun Heo writes: > >> Ugly but given the current interface limitations... > > Yep. I have been thinking it might be nice to look at what you did with magic symlink > handling. Otherwise we either need to convert everything from sysfs_remove_link to > sysfs_delete_link if we don't want to play whack a mole. I think the current one should do for now. Changing to managed links requires pervasive changes to locking and stuff. I'll clean them up when I refresh the patches I posted a while back. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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/