From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 9p: basic sysfs support
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 17:18:39 -0700
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On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 01:14:05PM -0600, Latchesar Ionkov wrote:
> This patch adds only the basic 9p functionality, we use the sysfs
> interface extensively for configuring the 9p in-kernel servers (patch
> 7 in the series). The v9fs filesyste will probably add some more
> subdirectories for authenticating users and mapping user names to
> uids...

Ah, ok.  I don't know your projected time frame for this patch series,
but if it's for 2.6.25, you might want to look at the set of patches I
just sent to lkml to help make files like this easier to create thanks
to the great work from Kay Sievers.

thanks,

greg k-h