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*	[PATCH] inotify	Robert Love	2005-07-12	1	-5/+2
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly its inability to scale and its terrible user interface: * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount. * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of stat structures. * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals? inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change notification: * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO. You get a single fd, which is select()-able. * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item you were watching is on was unmounted." * inotify can watch directories or files. Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure), Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects. See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
*	[PATCH] DocBook: update comments	Martin Waitz	2005-06-24	1	-2/+3
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	This patch updates some comments to match code changes. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
*	[PATCH] remove duplicate get_dentry functions in various places	Christoph Hellwig	2005-06-23	5	-16/+9
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	Various filesystem drivers have grown a get_dentry() function that's a duplicate of lookup_one_len, except that it doesn't take a maximum length argument and doesn't check for \0 or / in the passed in filename. Switch all these places to use lookup_one_len. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
*	[PATCH] SYSFS: fix PAGE_SIZE check	Jon Smirl	2005-06-20	1	-1/+1
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	Without this change I can't set an attribute exactly PAGE_SIZE in length. There is no need for zero termination because the interface uses lengths. From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
*	[PATCH] sysfs-iattr: set inode attributes	Maneesh Soni	2005-06-20	3	-8/+35
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	o Following patch sets the attributes for newly allocated inodes for sysfs objects. If the object has non-default attributes, inode attributes are set as saved in sysfs_dirent->s_iattr, pointer to struct iattr. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
*	[PATCH] sysfs-iattr: add sysfs_setattr	Maneesh Soni	2005-06-20	3	-0/+68
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	o This adds ->i_op->setattr VFS method for sysfs inodes. The changed attribues are saved in the persistent sysfs_dirent structure as a pointer to struct iattr. The struct iattr is allocated only for those sysfs_dirent's for which default attributes are getting changed. Thanks to Jon Smirl for this suggestion. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
*	[PATCH] sysfs-iattr: attach sysfs_dirent before new inode	Maneesh Soni	2005-06-20	1	-10/+15
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	o The following patch makes sure to attach sysfs_dirent to the dentry before allocation a new inode through sysfs_create(). This change is done as preparatory work for implementing ->i_op->setattr() functionality for sysfs objects. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
*	[PATCH] sysfs: if show/store is missing return -EIO	Dmitry Torokhov	2005-06-20	2	-4/+4
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	sysfs: if attribute does not implement show or store method read/write should return -EIO instead of 0 or -EINVAL. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
*	[PATCH] sysfs_{create\|remove}_link should take const char *	Dmitry Torokhov	2005-06-20	1	-4/+4
\| \| \| \| \| \| \|	sysfs: make sysfs_{create\|remove}_link to take const char * name. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
*	[PATCH] DocBook: fix some descriptions	Martin Waitz	2005-05-01	1	-2/+2
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	Some KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code. No code changes. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
*	[PATCH] sysfs: add sysfs_chmod_file()	Kay Sievers	2005-04-18	1	-0/+35
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	sysfs: allow changing the permissions for already created attributes Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
*	Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2	Linus Torvalds	2005-04-16	9	-0/+1763
	Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!