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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2009-11-20 16:08:56 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-12-11 11:24:54 -0800
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sysfs: Propagate renames to the vfs on demand
By teaching sysfs_revalidate to hide a dentry for a sysfs_dirent if the sysfs_dirent has been renamed, and by teaching sysfs_lookup to return the original dentry if the sysfs dirent has been renamed. I can show the results of renames correctly without having to update the dcache during the directory rename. This massively simplifies the rename logic allowing a lot of weird sysfs special cases to be removed along with a lot of now unnecesary helper code. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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diff --git a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
index 90b35012abb2..98a15bf1efe1 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
+++ b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
@@ -103,7 +103,6 @@ extern struct kmem_cache *sysfs_dir_cachep;
* dir.c
*/
extern struct mutex sysfs_mutex;
-extern struct mutex sysfs_rename_mutex;
extern spinlock_t sysfs_assoc_lock;
extern const struct file_operations sysfs_dir_operations;