linux.git/fs/sysfs/file.c, branch v2.6.13

[PATCH] sysfs: fix sysfs_chmod_file

2005-07-29T20:12:49+00:00

o sysfs_chmod_file() must update the new iattr field in sysfs_dirent else
  the mode change will not be persistent in case of inode evacuation from
  cache.

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] inotify

2005-07-13T03:38:38+00:00

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 
Cc: John McCutchan 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] DocBook: update comments

2005-06-24T07:06:40+00:00

This patch updates some comments to match code changes.

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] remove duplicate get_dentry functions in various places

2005-06-23T16:45:20+00:00

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 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Paul Jackson 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] SYSFS: fix PAGE_SIZE check

2005-06-20T22:15:38+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] sysfs: if show/store is missing return -EIO

2005-06-20T22:15:02+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] DocBook: fix some descriptions

2005-05-01T15:59:26+00:00

Some KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code.
No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sysfs: add sysfs_chmod_file()

2005-04-19T04:57:32+00:00

sysfs: allow changing the permissions for already created attributes

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-16T22:20:36+00:00

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!