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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.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 00:44:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081017074453.GA4850@kroah.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..  

Um, no.

You are trying to create symlinks dynamically across superblocks and
mount points?  As one of your #warning states, this isn't possible to do
correctly, nor is it even a good idea.

So I'd have to reject this patch, sorry.

What is the problem you are attempting to solve here?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-17  7:46 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 [this message]
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
2008-10-17 19:50   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger

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