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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] tagged sysfs support
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:25:09 +0900
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On 03/31/2010 02:51 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Another problem to solve is that sysfs does not allow us to symlink
> regular files, only directories, so we can currently not create the
> class-wide attributes as symlinks to the proper file in
> /sys/subsystem/.

Making sysfs allow symlinks to attributes shouldn't be too hard if
it's gonna help make things more logical overall.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun