This patch is part of dm/md dependency tree in sysfs. Following symlinks are created if dm-0 maps to sda: /sys/block/dm-0/slaves/sda --> /sys/block/sda /sys/block/sda/holders/dm-0 --> /sys/block/dm-0 This patch depends on the following patches in mm tree: dm-tidy-mdptr.patch dm-table-store-md.patch Thanks, -- Jun'ichi Nomura, NEC Solutions (America), Inc.