From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755174AbZKQP4N (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:56:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754989AbZKQP4L (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:56:11 -0500 Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:36877 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753841AbZKQP4I (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:56:08 -0500 To: Greg KH Cc: Kay Sievers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Cornelia Huck , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet , Benjamin LaHaise Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] sysfs lazification. References: <20091106224857.GB32205@kroah.com> <20091117154116.GA22756@kroah.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:56:03 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20091117154116.GA22756@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Tue\, 17 Nov 2009 07\:41\:16 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in02.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=76.21.114.89;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 76.21.114.89 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:26:12 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on in02.mta.xmission.com); Unknown failure Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH writes: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 01:11:22AM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Greg KH 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? >> >> Are you going to apply them soon? If you don't have time I can start >> a sysfs tree and just ask Linus to pull them. > > Well, as the merge window is not open right now, that might be tough to > get Linus to take them at the moment :) True. ;) > I was away last week, and will apply them to my tree this week, thanks > for your patience. I'm working on it. Eric