Re: No more "device" symlinks for classes

[Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>]

Pierre Ossman wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I just wanted to know the rationale behind
> 99ef3ef8d5f2f5b5312627127ad63df27c0d0d05 (no more "device" symlink in
> class devices). I thought that was a rather convenient way of finding
> which physical device the class device was coupled to.
> 

Actually I wonder why those links still present even when I told system not
to create them?

{pts/1}% grep DEPRE /boot/config
# CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set
# CONFIG_PM_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set
{pts/1}% find /sys/class -name device
/sys/class/pcmcia_socket/pcmcia_socket2/device
/sys/class/pcmcia_socket/pcmcia_socket1/device
/sys/class/pcmcia_socket/pcmcia_socket0/device
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/device
/sys/class/usb_host/usb_host1/device
/sys/class/scsi_disk/0:0:0:0/device
/sys/class/scsi_device/1:0:0:0/device
/sys/class/scsi_device/0:0:0:0/device
/sys/class/scsi_host/host1/device
/sys/class/scsi_host/host0/device
/sys/class/net/eth0/device
/sys/class/net/eth1/device
/sys/class/input/input1/ts0/device
/sys/class/input/input1/mouse0/device
/sys/class/input/input1/event1/device
/sys/class/input/input1/device
/sys/class/input/input0/event0/device
/sys/class/input/input0/device
{pts/1}% uname -a
Linux cooker 2.6.20-rc5-1avb #10 Sat Jan 13 14:05:34 MSK 2007 i686 Pentium
III (Coppermine) GNU/Linux

-andrey