From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263986AbUDPXrS (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:47:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263985AbUDPXrR (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:47:17 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:5257 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263989AbUDPXqE (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:46:04 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 00:46:02 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Greg KH Cc: Maneesh Soni , LKML Subject: Re: [RFC] fix sysfs symlinks Message-ID: <20040416234601.GL24997@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20040413124037.GA21637@in.ibm.com> <20040413133615.GZ31500@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040415220232.GC23039@kroah.com> <20040416152448.GF24997@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040416223732.GC21701@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040416223732.GC21701@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 03:37:32PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Since when did we ever assume that renaming a kobject would rename the > symlinks that might point to it? Renaming kobjects are a hack that way, > if you use them, you need to be aware of this limitation. Since we assume that these symlinks actually reflect some relationship between the objects and are really needed for something. If they are not - why the hell do we keep them at all?