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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-linux@farside.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Symlink /sys/class/block to /sys/block
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:21:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050222232142.GA10372@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050222230634.GB16383@taniwha.stupidest.org>

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:06:34PM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:29:13PM +0000, Malcolm Rowe wrote:
> 
> > Following the discussion in [1], the attached patch creates
> > /sys/class/block as a symlink to /sys/block. The patch applies to
> > 2.6.11-rc4-bk7.
> 
> Shouldn't we really move /sys/block to /sys/class/block and put the
> symlink from there to /sys/block with the hope of removing it one day?

When struct class_device can support children, we can do just that.  But
that support has not been added, yet...

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2005-02-22 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-19 23:29 [PATCH] Symlink /sys/class/block to /sys/block Malcolm Rowe
2005-02-22 19:04 ` Greg KH
     [not found]   ` <courier.421C5047.00003EBA@mail.farside.org.uk>
2005-02-24 23:34     ` Greg KH
2005-02-25  1:35       ` Kay Sievers
2005-02-25 22:39         ` Greg KH
2005-02-25 23:53           ` Kay Sievers
2005-02-25 23:58             ` Greg KH
2005-02-22 23:06 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-02-22 23:21   ` Greg KH [this message]

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