Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753576AbZKQJLf (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:11:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753376AbZKQJLe (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:11:34 -0500 Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:45661 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752966AbZKQJLd (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:11:33 -0500 To: Greg KH Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kay Sievers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Cornelia Huck , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet , Benjamin LaHaise Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] sysfs lazification. References: <20091106224857.GB32205@kroah.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:11:22 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20091106224857.GB32205@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Fri\, 6 Nov 2009 14\:48\:57 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in02.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=76.21.114.89;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 76.21.114.89 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:26:12 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on in02.mta.xmission.com); Unknown failure Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1093 Lines: 30 Greg KH writes: > On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 03:53:56AM -0800, 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. >> >> In net the patches look like: > > Can you resend these based on the review that you just got, with the new > acks and changes so that I can apply them? Are you going to apply them soon? If you don't have time I can start a sysfs tree and just ask Linus to pull them. Eric -- 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/