From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755689Ab2CEQru (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:47:50 -0500 Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:57945 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754622Ab2CEQrs convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:47:48 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120305160953.GA3870@kroah.com> References: <20120130222717.GA6393@kroah.com> <4F27C6EB.2070305@suse.cz> <4F54BFEC.6000206@suse.cz> <20120305160953.GA3870@kroah.com> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 08:47:27 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5Gqj7tAx8nLg2ADo4Xk7RvZ3yEI Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Optionally count subdirectories to support buggy applications To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jiri Slaby , "Eric W. Biederman" , Jiri Slaby , Alan Cox , LKML , Al Viro , Maciej Rutecki Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman 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