Tejun Heo wrote: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >>> That said, the mechanism is a bit too fragile. sysfs currently ensures >>> that dentry/inode point to the associated sysfs_dirent. This is mainly >>> remanent of conversion from previous VFS based implementation. I think >>> the right thing to do here is to make sysfs behave like other proper >>> distributed filesystems using d_revalidate. >> Huh? We still need something like sysfs_get_dentry to find the dentries >> for the rename or move operation. So we can call d_move. > > Ah... right. Thanks. :-)
On the second thought, can't those too be dealt with d_revalidate? -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
