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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [ConfigFS]: Allow symbolic links from a SysFS struct kobject source.
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:32:52 -0600
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:22:18AM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> This of course means that non TYPE_DISK of struct scsi_device would need
> to appear under /sys/ to be referenced using the symlink method..  I
> know that drivers/scsi/sr.c currently does not show up under /sys..

Hmm?

$ ls -l /sys/block/sr0/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 2008-10-17 07:30 bdi -> ../../class/bdi/11:0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-10-17 07:30 capability
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-10-17 07:30 dev
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 2008-10-17 07:30 device -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.1/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    0 2008-10-17 07:30 holders
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    0 2008-10-17 07:30 power
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    0 2008-10-17 07:30 queue
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-10-17 07:30 range
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-10-17 07:30 removable
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-10-17 07:30 ro
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-10-17 07:30 size
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    0 2008-10-17 07:30 slaves
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-10-17 07:30 stat
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 2008-10-17 07:30 subsystem -> ../../block
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2008-10-17 07:30 uevent

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