Re: [RFC] fix sysfs symlinks

[viro]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:10:16PM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote:
> I am not sure, if pinning the kobject for the life time of symlink (dentry)
> may result in same problems like rmmod hang which we saw in case of pinning
> kobject for the life time of its directory (dentry).

Erm...  If rmmod _ever_ waits for refcount on kobject to reach zero, it's
already broken.  Do you have any examples of such behaviour?
 
> +	pr_debug("%s: path = '%s'\n", __FUNCTION__, path);
> +
> +	return error;

ITYM
	return 0;

BTW, replace leading spaces with tab, please - you've got a tabdamage
very visible in patch.
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