Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753095AbZGOJTY (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:19:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752185AbZGOJTY (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:19:24 -0400 Received: from mtagate5.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.138]:49429 "EHLO mtagate5.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752089AbZGOJTX (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:19:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4A5D9EB7.30603@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:17:43 +0200 From: Peter Oberparleiter User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: fix hardlink count on device_move References: <4A5CAA9F.1050302@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090714160447.GA1933@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20090714160447.GA1933@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1165 Lines: 29 Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:56:15PM +0200, Peter Oberparleiter wrote: >> From: Peter Oberparleiter >> >> Update directory hardlink count when moving kobjects to a new parent. >> Fixes the following problem which occurs when several devices are >> moved to the same parent and then unregistered: >> >>> ls -laF /sys/devices/css0/defunct/ >>> total 0 >>> drwxr-xr-x 4294967295 root root 0 2009-07-14 17:02 ./ >>> drwxr-xr-x 114 root root 0 2009-07-14 17:02 ../ >>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2009-07-14 17:01 power/ >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2009-07-14 17:01 uevent >> Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter > > Thanks for the patch. > > Is this something new in 2.6.31-rc, or does it also show up in .30 > and/or .27? This is an old problem that existed since the introduction of sysfs_move_dir() in 2.6.20. -- 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/