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sysfs: Gut sysfs_addrm_start and sysfs_addrm_finish
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@maxwell.aristanetworks.com>
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:08:55 +0000 (16:08 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:24:54 +0000 (11:24 -0800)
commita16bbc3430ed94b543222f4c8ef68025f8493e93
treee866babd9a5ab024bcd68a9f935c4b373b1e8ac7tree | snapshot
parent06fc0d66f7ed3a3b08e8fcf8c325ecf0b8f93feacommit | diff
sysfs: Gut sysfs_addrm_start and sysfs_addrm_finish

With lazy inode updates and dentry operations bringing everything
into sync on demand there is no longer any need to immediately
update the vfs or grab i_mutex to protect those updates as we
make changes to sysfs.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
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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