Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:13:55 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
       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>,
       "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/15] sysfs: Fix locking and factor out
 sysfs_sd_setattr
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On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:27:04PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> 
> Cleanly separate the work that is specific to setting the
> attributes of a sysfs_dirent from what is needed to update
> the attributes of a vfs inode.
> 
> Additionally grab the sysfs_mutex to keep any nasties from
> surprising us when updating the sysfs_dirent.
> 
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>

Due to the extended attr work for sysfs that went into Linus's tree
recently, this patch doesn't apply at all anymore.

I've applied the first 5 to my tree, care to respin the other 10 and
resend them?

thanks,

greg k-h
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