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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Symlink /sys/class/block to /sys/block
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:58:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050225235839.GB29912@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050225235349.GA12485@vrfy.org>

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 12:53:49AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 02:39:27PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> No, but anything like udevstart or HAL coldplugging will have a problem
> with that inconsistency.

Damm, forgot about that, good point :)

Ok, forget the symlink.  Or, for that matter, ever moving from
/sys/block/...

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-25 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-19 23:29 Malcolm Rowe
2005-02-22 19:04 ` Greg KH
     [not found]   ` <courier.421C5047.00003EBA@mail.farside.org.uk>
2005-02-24 23:34     ` Greg KH
2005-02-25  1:35       ` Kay Sievers
2005-02-25 22:39         ` Greg KH
2005-02-25 23:53           ` Kay Sievers
2005-02-25 23:58             ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-02-22 23:06 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-02-22 23:21   ` Greg KH

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