Re: regarding major number of block extended devt

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Note that addition /partitions/ is somewhat unlikely to be useful, since
>> existing code will have to search through random crap in sysfs to look
>> for the partition directories anyway.
> 
> Currently it has to list /sys/block/DEV/DEV[-]N/.  With proper
> classification, it can do /sys/block/*/partitions/*.  We'll need to keep
> around symlinks at the root level.  It also plays well with how other
> subsystems have been changing.
> 

Yes, my point was mostly that in order to support older kernels, most 
code is going to want to just access /sys/block/DEV/DEV*N/ anyway.  What 
I have done in my code is I do a readdir() on /sys/block/DEV and look 
for subdirectories with a "dev" member.

Changing them to symlinks would actually break at least my code 
(arguably bad programming on my part), since  optimize by looking for 
DT_DIR.

	-hpa