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From: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [ConfigFS]: Allow symbolic links from a SysFS struct
	kobject source.
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:50:44 -0700
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Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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To: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
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On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 12:39 -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> 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.
> 

Fair enough, I will kill it from my tree. :-)

Thanks for your comments!

--nab