Re: problem with duplicate sysfs directories and files

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:40:14PM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:58:16PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I have a test module that shows this at:
> > 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/gregkh/sysfs-test.patch
> > just load the 'gregkh' module and look in /sys/class/gregkh/ to see the
> > duplicate "gregkh1" directories.
> > 
> 
> Thnaks for the testcase, I could verify the following patch using this. I
> don't see the duplicate "gregkh1" directories. Please queue it for post 2.6.16
> if you are ok with it.

Looks good.  I tweaked it a bit (returned -EEXIST from functions if the
file already existed), and renamed the function to play nicer in the
global namespace.  Updated patch is below

Thanks a lot for doing this, I appreciate it.

greg k-h

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