Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 10:48:42AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> While shadow directories appear to be a good idea, the current scheme >> of controlling their creation and destruction outside of sysfs appears >> to be a locking and maintenance nightmare in the face of sysfs directories >> dynamically coming and going. Which can now occur for directories containing >> network devices when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set. >> >> This patch removes everything from the initial shadow directory support >> that allowed the shadow directory creation to be controlled at a higher >> level. So except for a few bits of sysfs_rename_dir everything from >> commit b592fcfe7f06c15ec11774b5be7ce0de3aa86e73 is now gone. > > Can you rebase patches 2-5 on the latest -mm? Tejun redid the whole > sysfs internals which pretty much means that this patch series doesn't > apply anymore :( Groan... I expect so. I'm in the middle of figuring out how to make kthread_stop successfully terminate interruptible sleeps, so I can convert the last hold outs using kernel_thread to kthread. Which means it will be a day or two before I can look at this, unless I get lucky and it happens to be a trivial rebase. Eric _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers