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From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, katzj@redhat.com
Subject: Re: "block" symlink in sysfs for a multifunction device
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:47:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051215024707.GA3097@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051215004434.GA4148@kroah.com>

Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) said: 
> I don't understand, what exactly would you like to see in the block
> device's device directory?  With this patch, we correctly point back to
> all of the different block devices controlled by this device.
> 
> I'm curious as to why kudzu even cares about this?

Actually, it shouldn't be a problem.

> And, how does it handle things like mult-port serial devices, which have
> all of the multiple class device symlinks in one single device
> directory, just like this.

Ignores them entirely, of course. (kudzu at this point is used
solely in the installer.)

Bill

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-15  2:47 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
2005-12-15  0:10       ` Pete Zaitcev
2005-12-15  0:44         ` Greg KH
2005-12-15  2:47           ` Bill Nottingham [this message]
2005-12-15  4:47       ` Jeremy Katz
2005-12-15 16:53         ` Greg KH

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