On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:43:35AM +0000, Malcolm Rowe wrote: > 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...
If the subsystem is never unregistered, then don't worry about undoing the symlink. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
