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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/20] sysfs: Implement sysfs_rename_link
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 10:49:07 +0900
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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> 
> Because of rename ordering problems we occassionally give false
> warnings about invalid sysfs operations, so implement a helper
> function for this common sysfs idiom.
> 
> This is a stripped down version of an earlier patch that
> also added sysfs_delete_link.
> 
> Cc: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>

I think this has been brought up before but can you please use
--no-chain-reply-to?  It's painful to follow the deep nesting.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun