Re: [PATCH RESEND v4 1/2] mmc: card: Move MMC specific attributes to mmc sub-directory

[Chris Ball]

Hi,

On Sat, Jul 14 2012, Maya Erez wrote:
> Separate MMC specific attributes from general block device
> attributes and move them from the /sys/block/<BLOCK_DEV> directory
> to /sys/block/<BLOCK_DEV>/mmc directory

I don't think we can do this, even though the change is a good one.
What happens if someone has userspace scripts that manipulate force_ro,
or ro_lock_until_next_power_on?

sysfs isn't a firmly stable kernel ABI, but I think it's much closer
to one than this patch implies.

Thanks,

- Chris.
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