Re: [PATCH 0/13] sysfs lazification.

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Sun Nov 08 2009 - 02:06:28 EST


Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 03:53:56AM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> The sysfs code updates the vfs caches immediately when the sysfs data
>> structures change causing a lot of unnecessary complications. The
>> following patchset untangles that beast. Allowing for simpler
>> more straight forward code, the removal of a hack from the vfs
>> to support sysfs, and human comprehensible locking on sysfs.
>>
>> Most of these patches have already been reviewed and acked from the
>> last time I had time to work on sysfs.
>>
>> In net the patches look like:
>
> Can you resend these based on the review that you just got, with the new
> acks and changes so that I can apply them?

Coming in just a minute. The fixes are the trailing patches.

Eric
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