On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:18:21PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > 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?
FVO "dealt with" as pleasant and efficient as using coarse whetstone to deal with caries. -- 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/
