The sysfs code updates the vfs caches immediately when the sysfs data structures change causing a lot of unnecessary complications. The following patchset untangles that beast. Allowing for simpler more straight forward code, the removal of a hack from the vfs to support sysfs, and human comprehensible locking on sysfs. Most of these patches have already been reviewed and acked from the last time I had time to work on sysfs. In net the patches look like: fs/namei.c | 22 --- fs/sysfs/dir.c | 388 ++++++++++++++++--------------------------------- fs/sysfs/file.c | 41 +---- fs/sysfs/inode.c | 178 ++++++++++++++--------- fs/sysfs/symlink.c | 11 +- fs/sysfs/sysfs.h | 9 +- include/linux/namei.h | 1 - 7 files changed, 256 insertions(+), 394 deletions(-) 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
