Re: [stable] Re: [patch 11/22] Fix block device symlink name

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Apr 14 2006 - 15:51:33 EST


On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 02:57:30AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 04:08:07PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > As noted further on the this file, some block devices have a / in their
> > name, so fix the "block:..." symlink name the same as the /sys/block name.
>
> shouldn't there be a common helper for both the symlink and the
> /sys/block name so erros like this don't happen again?

Yes, there probably should. If someone wants to create one, I'm sure
that it would be accepted into Linus's tree.

thanks,

greg k-h
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