Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756301AbZKTVjT (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:39:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755915AbZKTVjS (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:39:18 -0500 Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:51388 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755929AbZKTVjP (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:39:15 -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 , Serge Hallyn , "Eric W. Biederman" References: <1257665233-12468-6-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> <20091120201355.GA30590@kroah.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:39:06 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20091120201355.GA30590@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Fri\, 20 Nov 2009 12\:13\:55 -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=in01.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 Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/15] sysfs: Fix locking and factor out sysfs_sd_setattr X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:26:12 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on in01.mta.xmission.com); Unknown failure Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1137 Lines: 29 Greg KH writes: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:27:04PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> From: Eric W. Biederman >> >> 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 >> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman > > Due to the extended attr work for sysfs that went into Linus's tree > recently, this patch doesn't apply at all anymore. I will take a look. I'm scratching my about how that caused a problem because that patch came out of my tree originally, before the rest of these patches. So if anything I should have problems in the other direction. 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/