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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>, hare@suse.de
Subject: Re: A better solution than "md_component_detection = 1"
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:42:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050420234256.GA24033@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050410172931.GF12752@marowsky-bree.de>

On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 07:29:31PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> Proposed solution: Introduce sub-devices into the sysfs tree. (And,
> automatically, backlink those to parent devices, but that's just so the
> tree can be traversed in any order.)
> 
> For example, /sys/block/sda would have a sub/ directory with "dm-0" in
> there, pointing at /sys/block/dm-0 (surprise). The
> /sys/block/dm-0/parent/sd{a,b} entries would do a very surprising
> thing.

I don't have a problem with this, and I don't think udev would either.
There's nothing keeping this from happening today with regards to the
sysfs code.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-20 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-15 14:47 md_component_detection = 1 shahid shaikh
2005-02-15 21:20 ` Christophe Varoqui
2005-02-15 21:34   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2005-02-15 21:51     ` Christophe Varoqui
2005-04-10 17:29 ` A better solution than "md_component_detection = 1" Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-04-19 21:38   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-04-19 21:55     ` christophe varoqui
2005-04-20 10:13       ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-04-20 10:36         ` christophe varoqui
2005-04-20 23:42   ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-05-03 11:20   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree

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