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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:57:49 +0900
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
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       Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
       Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@lhnet.ca>,
       Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/15] sysfs lazification final
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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The sysfs code updates the vfs caches immediately when the sysfs data
> structures change causing a lot of unnecessary complications.  The
> following patchset untangles that beast.  Allowing for simpler
> more straight forward code, the removal of a hack from the vfs
> to support sysfs, and human comprehensible locking on sysfs.
> 
> Most of these patches have already been reviewed and acked from the
> last time I had time to work on sysfs.
> 
> This acks have been folded in and the two small bugs found in the
> previous review have been fixed in the trailing patches (they are
> minor enough nits that even a bisect that happens to land in the
> middle should not see sysfs problems).

Thanks a lot for bringing some sanity to sysfs.  :-)

-- 
tejun
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