From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753245Ab2CHVFo (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:05:44 -0500 Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:62248 "EHLO mail-gx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752379Ab2CHVFn (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:05:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 13:05:37 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jiri Slaby , "Eric W. Biederman" , Jiri Slaby , Alan Cox , LKML , Al Viro , Maciej Rutecki Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Optionally count subdirectories to support buggy applications Message-ID: <20120308210537.GA32436@kroah.com> References: <4F27C6EB.2070305@suse.cz> <4F54BFEC.6000206@suse.cz> <20120305160953.GA3870@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 08:47:27AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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. Ok, I've now reverted this patch in my tree. greg k-h