On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 13:27 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > James Bottomley wrote: > > visibility and creation are the same thing, aren't they? An invisible > > attribute doesn't appear in the sysfs directory, so it's equivalent to > > the file for it not being created. > > > What about the case where it's visible at creation time, but then needs > to be made selectively invisible later on? > > That implies either a remove operation or dentry checks on each lookup? Yes, that comes with the bitmap manipulation code. There will be a way to add and remove runtime visibility. I just wanted to get the basic concept agreed to first. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
