Re: [PATCH 22/20] sysfs: Make sysfs_rename_link atomic

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On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 01:21, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 23:32, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 22:13, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Use the existing sysfs_rename to make sysfs_rename_link an atomic
>>> operation that does less work.  While I am at add additional sanity
>>> checking to ensure it is a symlink I am renaming.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Looks great, and so much better than the remove and re-create thing.
>
> Do you have your git tree public somewhere, or do you mind sending me
> an all-in-one patch? I like to give it a try here.

Looks good. It survives a heavy hotplug setup just fine, renaming
works fine here, and sysfs looks right. There are a bunch of warnings
for some non-empty directories, which I replied with in the patch that
added the warning.

Thanks,
Kay
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