Re: [PATCH] alsa: correct nonsensical sysfs device symlinks

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:50:06PM -0500, Christopher Monty Montgomery wrote:
> This patch was generated against 2.6.20-rc5; it fixes a bug that
> cropped up in a late 2.6.19-mm kernel.
> 
> When ALSA's sysfs device creation was converted from using
> class_device_create() to device_create(), the fourth param from
> class_device_create() [dev] was simply plugged into arg 2 of
> device_create().  This causes the device symlinks under all the
> class/sound/[node] to point to nonsensical places.  Among other
> problems, this breaks HAL and all audio software that depends on HAL.

I don't understand, where does the symlink currently point to?  It looks
correct to me on my machines:

$ tree /sys/class/sound/
/sys/class/sound/
|-- card0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/card0
|-- controlC0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/card0/controlC0
|-- pcmC0D0c -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/card0/pcmC0D0c
|-- pcmC0D0p -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/card0/pcmC0D0p
|-- pcmC0D2c -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/card0/pcmC0D2c
|-- pcmC0D6c -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/card0/pcmC0D6c
|-- pcmC0D6p -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/card0/pcmC0D6p
`-- timer -> ../../devices/virtual/sound/timer

What do the symlinks look on your machine?

thanks,

greg k-h