Re: [PATCH] Symlink /sys/class/block to /sys/block (fwd)

From: Malcolm Rowe
Date: Wed Feb 23 2005 - 04:50:33 EST


Greg KH writes:

Following the discussion in [1], the attached patch creates /sys/class/block
as a symlink to /sys/block. The patch applies to 2.6.11-rc4-bk7.

Please cc: me on any replies - I'm not subscribed to the mailing list.
Hm, your patch is linewrapped, and can't be applied :(

Bah, and I did send it to myself first, but I guess my mailer un-flowed it for me :-(. I'll try to find a better mailer.

But more importantly:
static void disk_release(struct kobject * kobj)

Did you try to remove a disk (like a usb device) and see what happens
here? Hint, this isn't the proper place to remove the symlink...

Er, yeah. Oops.

*Is* there a sensible place to remove the symlink from, though? Nobody seems to call subsystem_unregister(&block_subsys), which is the place I'd expect to add a call to, and I can't see anything that's otherwise obvious...

Regards,
Malcolm

[resent using the right address for linux-kernel. Sorry for the duplicate, Greg]
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