From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: [PATCH 0/7] General sysfs enhancements Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:16:09 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: , Tejun Heo , Kay Sievers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Cornelia Huck , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet , Benjamin LaHaise , Serge Hallyn To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org This patchset is built on top of 2.6.33-rc3 + "sysfs: Cache the last sysfs_dirent to improve readdir scalability v2" Greg I assume you have that patch somewhere in queue. This patchset contains little cleanups all around sysfs. - Some basic cleanups. - Some sysfs scaling work - Implementation of sysfs_rename drivers/base/core.c | 18 ++++++------------ fs/sysfs/dir.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++- fs/sysfs/inode.c | 28 ++++++++-------------------- fs/sysfs/mount.c | 5 ++--- fs/sysfs/symlink.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/sysfs/sysfs.h | 6 +++--- include/linux/sysfs.h | 9 +++++++++ 7 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) This should be the final patchset before we can seriously look at network namespace support in sysfs, again. Eric