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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, katzj@redhat.com
Subject: Re: "block" symlink in sysfs for a multifunction device
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:42:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051214234255.GA3275@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051214152615.13b6b105.zaitcev@redhat.com>

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 03:26:15PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:50:19 -0800, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> 
> > $ ls -l /sys/block/uba/device/
> > -r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 Dec 13 21:31 bNumEndpoints
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 Dec 13 21:31 block:uba -> ../../../../../../block/uba
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 Dec 13 21:31 block:ubb -> ../../../../../../block/ubb
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 Dec 13 21:31 block:ubc -> ../../../../../../block/ubc
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 Dec 13 21:31 block:ubd -> ../../../../../../block/ubd
> 
> Greg, Jeremy is not happy about this.
> 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175563
> > ------- Additional Comments From katzj@redhat.com  2005-12-14 18:05 EST -------
> > Actually, this is problematic.  It makes it so that the single device directory
> > corresponds to more than one device which we can't handle with kudzu :-(

Well, how do you handle it for class devices then?

And if this isn't acceptable, what would be?

Just because kudzu is messed up... :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-14 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-12 21:49 "block" symlink in sysfs for a multifunction device Pete Zaitcev
2005-12-12 21:53 ` Russell King
2005-12-14  5:50 ` Greg KH
2005-12-14  6:58   ` Pete Zaitcev
2005-12-14 23:26   ` Pete Zaitcev
2005-12-14 23:42     ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-12-15  0:10       ` Pete Zaitcev
2005-12-15  0:44         ` Greg KH
2005-12-15  2:47           ` Bill Nottingham
2005-12-15  4:47       ` Jeremy Katz
2005-12-15 16:53         ` Greg KH

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