Re: [PATCH 1/7] sysfs: fix locking in sysfs_lookup() and sysfs_rename_dir()

[Eric W. Biederman]

Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 07:15:08PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> sd children list walking in sysfs_lookup() and sd renaming in
>> sysfs_rename_dir() were left out during i_mutex -> sysfs_mutex
>> conversion.  Fix them.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Ok, to apply this, it messes with Eric's further patches for the shadow
> directory stuff.  But since it looks like you and Eric seem to have
> worked something else in that area, I'll drop Eric's patches for now, as
> that's the safest thing.
>
> Eric, is that ok?

Sounds good.  With a little luck I should have something working in a couple
of hours and then I can see about getting a tree with both my patches
and Tejun.  So I will probably rebase on top of Tejun's latest patches.

Eric
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