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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [ConfigFS]: Allow symbolic links from a SysFS struct
	kobject source.
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:39:47 -0700
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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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