From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
"Linux-iSCSI.org Target Dev"
<linux-iscsi-target-dev@googlegroups.com>,
SCST-Devel <scst-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [ConfigFS]: Allow symbolic links from a SysFS struct kobject source.
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:39:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081017193947.GC5633@mail.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224226555.5556.279.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org>
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:55:55PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> Hi Joel, Greg and Co,
>
> Here is the the first working code for allowing configfs to handle
> symlinks from sysfs struct kobject based code. Here is the commit:
> passing struct kobject into generic target_core_mod subsystem plugins
> for locating struct block_device and struct scsi_device..
NAK.
As Greg said, this just doesn't work. Don't go down this path.
Joel
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Joel Becker
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-17 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-17 6:55 [PATCH] [ConfigFS]: Allow symbolic links from a SysFS struct kobject source Nicholas A. Bellinger
2008-10-17 7:44 ` Greg KH
2008-10-17 8:22 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2008-10-17 11:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-17 19:02 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2008-10-17 17:39 ` Greg KH
2008-10-17 19:19 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2008-10-17 20:10 ` Greg KH
2008-10-18 2:41 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2008-10-17 19:48 ` Joel Becker
2008-10-17 20:03 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2008-10-17 20:07 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2008-10-17 19:39 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2008-10-17 19:50 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
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