On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:48:42AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> While shadow directories appear to be a good idea, the current scheme
> of controlling their creation and destruction outside of sysfs appears
> to be a locking and maintenance nightmare in the face of sysfs directories
> dynamically coming and going. Which can now occur for directories containing
> network devices when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set.
>
> This patch removes everything from the initial shadow directory support
> that allowed the shadow directory creation to be controlled at a higher
> level. So except for a few bits of sysfs_rename_dir everything from
> commit b592fcfe7f06c15ec11774b5be7ce0de3aa86e73 is now gone.
Can you rebase patches 2-5 on the latest -mm? Tejun redid the whole
sysfs internals which pretty much means that this patch series doesn't
apply anymore :(
thanks,
greg k-h
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