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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Optionally count subdirectories to support buggy applications
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 08:47:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFy1PXiNkXw08tDM7G9AO0_92xm2mEFF961-4Wpizo+6KQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120305160953.GA3870@kroah.com>

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> I don't remember.  I thought there was a proposed patch for this issue
> from Eric, but I don't see it in my queue anywhere.

That patch was an abortion. Adding a config option for behavior like
this is totally bogus, and the only reason for that config option was
that sysfs did silly things.

It's only in -next, though, I was assuming that the whole "Kill nlink
counting" commit never makes it to me. Because I won't take it.

I outlined how the counting could easily be done without actually
having to maintain an explicit count in the sysfs.

Or we should just keep doing the counting.

                    Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-05 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-30 21:56 sysfs regression: wrong link counts Jiri Slaby
2012-01-30 22:06 ` Greg KH
2012-01-30 22:10   ` Alan Cox
2012-01-30 22:27     ` Greg KH
2012-01-30 22:43       ` Al Viro
2012-01-30 22:56         ` Al Viro
2012-01-31  1:27       ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 10:48         ` Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 12:44           ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 16:45             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-31 19:18               ` Al Viro
2012-02-01  5:06               ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-01 22:21                 ` [PATCH] sysfs: Optionally count subdirectories to support buggy applications Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-01 22:24                   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-01 22:44                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-01 22:49                       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-01 22:31                   ` Dave Jones
2012-02-01 22:35                   ` Jiri Slaby
2012-02-01 23:15                   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-01 23:18                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-02  1:22                       ` Al Viro
2012-02-02 21:24                         ` [RFC] killing boilerplate checks in ->link/->mkdir/->rename Al Viro
2012-02-02 23:46                           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-03  1:16                             ` Al Viro
2012-02-03  1:45                               ` Al Viro
2012-02-03  2:00                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-03 14:57                               ` Chris Mason
2012-02-03 17:08                               ` Al Viro
2012-02-03 19:34                                 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06  8:50                                 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06 13:56                                   ` Al Viro
2012-02-06 17:05                                     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06 17:11                                       ` Al Viro
2012-02-07  7:21                                         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06 22:49                               ` Dave Chinner
2012-02-03  8:25                           ` Andreas Dilger
2012-02-03 17:03                             ` Al Viro
2012-02-04  7:42                               ` Andreas Dilger
2012-03-05 13:30                       ` [PATCH] sysfs: Optionally count subdirectories to support buggy applications Jiri Slaby
2012-03-05 16:09                         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-03-05 16:47                           ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2012-03-08 21:05                             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-03-08 22:18                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08 23:40                               ` Linus Torvalds
2012-03-08 21:28                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08 21:34                           ` [PATCH 1/3] sysfs: Compact sysfs_dirent s_flags into a byte Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08 21:36                             ` [PATCH 2/3] sysfs: Maintain usable nlink directory counts Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08 21:37                               ` [PATCH 3/3] sysfs: Remove SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED and use sd->s_nlink == 0 instead Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-09  3:40                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-03-08 22:28                             ` [PATCH 1/3] sysfs: Compact sysfs_dirent s_flags into a byte Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-03-09  2:49                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31  3:45     ` sysfs regression: wrong link counts Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 11:54       ` Alan Cox
2012-01-30 22:52 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 10:41   ` network regression: cannot rename netdev twice Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 10:52     ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 11:00       ` Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 11:13         ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 11:17           ` Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 11:58             ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 14:18               ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 14:40                 ` [PATCH] sysfs: Update the name hash when renaming sysfs entries Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 14:41                   ` Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 14:55                   ` Greg KH
2012-02-04  2:14       ` network regression: cannot rename netdev twice Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-02-06 20:03         ` Kay Sievers
2012-02-08  2:00           ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-02-08  3:50             ` Kay Sievers
2012-02-08  6:42               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-02-08 10:57                 ` Kay Sievers
2012-02-08 20:06                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-02-08 20:27                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-02-08 23:48                     ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31  1:32 ` sysfs regression: wrong link counts Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-01 18:29 ` Maciej Rutecki

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