Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Optionally count subdirectories to support buggy applications

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I don't remember.  I thought there was a proposed patch for this issue
> from Eric, but I don't see it in my queue anywhere.

That patch was an abortion. Adding a config option for behavior like
this is totally bogus, and the only reason for that config option was
that sysfs did silly things.

It's only in -next, though, I was assuming that the whole "Kill nlink
counting" commit never makes it to me. Because I won't take it.

I outlined how the counting could easily be done without actually
having to maintain an explicit count in the sysfs.

Or we should just keep doing the counting.

                    Linus
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