Re: [PATCH 2/7] sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directorysupport

From: Satyam Sharma
Date: Tue Jul 31 2007 - 08:35:40 EST


Hi Tejun,

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Tejun Heo wrote:

> Tejun Heo 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.
>
> "From Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>" line is missing. I
> thought git scripts would add that automatically. Sorry about that.

I couldn't find this patch in the patchset you just posted ...
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