Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> Let's make the plan to investigate these, and see how hard it would be >> to actually remove these with the current device/sysfs infrastructure. >> >> Fixing the users and adding back auto-deletion are the only two real options. > > Seems, we should remove non-directory files, which in most cases belong > to the kobject itself, but the user's cleanup logic does not cover the > removal of the created files. > > But I think, we should still warn, if we find a sub-directory inside a > directory we are going to remove. So far complaining about deleting non-empty directories is finding real bugs. It does not appear that too many users that delete non-empty directories. My plan moving forward is to see what has goofed and how hard it is to change the callers to clean up after themselves. If it is not a pain to fix the callers who forget to delete their attributes that looks like the right way forward. It is certainly the principle of least surprise. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
