[Devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory support

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 01:33:42AM -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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
> ---
> These patches are against 2.6.22-rc4-mm2  Hopefully that is new enough
> to catch all of the in flight sysfs patches.

Ick, no, it isn't and doesn't apply at all :(

Can you try the next -mm release?

thanks,

greg k-h
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