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SubjectRe: [Bluez-devel] Oops involving RFCOMM and sysfs
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>> That said, the mechanism is a bit too fragile. sysfs currently ensures
>>> that dentry/inode point to the associated sysfs_dirent. This is mainly
>>> remanent of conversion from previous VFS based implementation. I think
>>> the right thing to do here is to make sysfs behave like other proper
>>> distributed filesystems using d_revalidate.
>> Huh? We still need something like sysfs_get_dentry to find the dentries
>> for the rename or move operation. So we can call d_move.
>
> Ah... right. Thanks. :-)

On the second thought, can't those too be dealt with d_revalidate?

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tejun


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