Re: [PATCH 06/15] sysfs: Fix locking and factor out sysfs_sd_setattr

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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:07:11PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:27:04PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> 
> >> Cleanly separate the work that is specific to setting the
> >> attributes of a sysfs_dirent from what is needed to update
> >> the attributes of a vfs inode.
> >> 
> >> Additionally grab the sysfs_mutex to keep any nasties from
> >> surprising us when updating the sysfs_dirent.
> >> 
> >> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Due to the extended attr work for sysfs that went into Linus's tree
> > recently, this patch doesn't apply at all anymore.
> 
> It looks like the issue is the a trivial context conflict  with 
> sysfs-mark-a-locally-only-used-function-static.patch

Ah, sorry about that, I should have noticed that, I was looking for a
much harder problem :(

I'll go queue these up in a bit.

thanks,

greg k-h
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