Re: [PATCH] sysfs: differentiate between locking links andnon-links

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Feb 17 2010 - 20:15:10 EST


On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 05:01:50PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:38:48 -0800
> > Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >> Got it, I've fixed this by hand.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Thanks.
> > I hadn't sent you a fix myself (As requested) as I got the impression from
> > the following discussion that a different approach would be taken.
> >
> > I'm happy either way though.
>
> I had the same impression.
>
> For simplicity I didn't base my patches on Neils because I would just
> have had to undo it when I modified directories and symlinks to not
> mess with s_active.

Argh, sorry about that, I'll go drop Neil's patch and queue up Eric's
instead. I was working my way through the patch queue and hadn't gotten
to Eric's just yet...

thanks,

greg k-h
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