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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [sysfs]: make readlink result shorter when the symlink and its target shared some base sysfs subdirectory
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:34:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071031143441.GA7128@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193826860-6166-1-git-send-email-crquan@gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:34:20PM +0800, Denis Cheng wrote:
> this is especially useful after /sys/slab introduced, for example:
> 
> $ ls -l /sys/slab/mm_struct
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-10-31 17:40 /sys/slab/mm_struct -> :0000448
> 
> instead of:
> 
> $ ls -l /sys/slab/mm_struct
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-10-31 17:40 /sys/slab/mm_struct -> ../slab/:0000448
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>

As pretty as this change is, it's not really necessary, right?

Is there any other place in /sys that would benefit from this?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-31 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-31 10:34 [PATCH] [sysfs]: make readlink result shorter when the symlink and its target shared some base sysfs subdirectory Denis Cheng
2007-10-31 14:34 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-10-31 18:15   ` rae l
2007-11-01 18:59   ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-01 19:20     ` Kay Sievers

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