From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, katzj@redhat.com
Subject: Re: "block" symlink in sysfs for a multifunction device
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:47:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051215024707.GA3097@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051215004434.GA4148@kroah.com>
Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) said:
> I don't understand, what exactly would you like to see in the block
> device's device directory? With this patch, we correctly point back to
> all of the different block devices controlled by this device.
>
> I'm curious as to why kudzu even cares about this?
Actually, it shouldn't be a problem.
> And, how does it handle things like mult-port serial devices, which have
> all of the multiple class device symlinks in one single device
> directory, just like this.
Ignores them entirely, of course. (kudzu at this point is used
solely in the installer.)
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-15 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-12 21:49 "block" symlink in sysfs for a multifunction device Pete Zaitcev
2005-12-12 21:53 ` Russell King
2005-12-14 5:50 ` Greg KH
2005-12-14 6:58 ` Pete Zaitcev
2005-12-14 23:26 ` Pete Zaitcev
2005-12-14 23:42 ` Greg KH
2005-12-15 0:10 ` Pete Zaitcev
2005-12-15 0:44 ` Greg KH
2005-12-15 2:47 ` Bill Nottingham [this message]
2005-12-15 4:47 ` Jeremy Katz
2005-12-15 16:53 ` Greg KH
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