On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 01:35:13AM +0000, Kay Sievers wrote: > Greg KH <gregkh <at> suse.de> writes: > > > > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:43:35AM +0000, Malcolm Rowe wrote: > > > Greg KH writes: > > > > > > >>Following the discussion in [1], the attached patch creates > > > >>/sys/class/block > > > >>as a symlink to /sys/block. The patch applies to 2.6.11-rc4-bk7. > > > >> > > > >>Please cc: me on any replies - I'm not subscribed to the mailing list. > > > >Hm, your patch is linewrapped, and can't be applied :( > > > > > > Bah, and I did send it to myself first, but I guess my mailer un-flowed > > > it > > > for me . I'll try to find a better mailer. > > > > > > >But more importantly: > > > >>static void disk_release(struct kobject * kobj) > > > > > > > >Did you try to remove a disk (like a usb device) and see what happens > > > >here? Hint, this isn't the proper place to remove the symlink... > > > > > > Er, yeah. Oops. > > > > > > *Is* there a sensible place to remove the symlink from, though? Nobody > > > seems to call subsystem_unregister(&block_subsys), which is the place I'd > > > expect to add a call to, and I can't see anything that's otherwise > > > obvious... > > > > If the subsystem is never unregistered, then don't worry about undoing > > the symlink. > > This symlink will break a lot of applications out there. If there is not a > _very_ good reason for it, we should not do that.
People seem to want it for some odd reason, I haven't seen a good reason yet though, let alone a working patch :) > The "dev" file unfortunately does not tell you if it's a char or block > device node and that should be solved by something better than matching a > magic string somewhere in the middle of a devpath. Use the subsystem value. If it's "block", it's a block device, otherwise it's a char device. Don't we already do this in udev today? > The hotplug events will still have the /block/* devpath, so this symlink > will give us nothing than problems. It will not give hotplug programs issues, as the block devpath still remains the same. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
