On 07/19/2018 03:47 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 05:07:59PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: >> Initially configfs did not support creation of a directory from the kernel >> side. Last time I brought this up with Christoph he replied that this >> functionality has been added to configfs (if I understood Christoph >> correctly). > > I don't think the functionality was ever missing, but I might be > mistaken. You can always call config_group_init_type_name() + > configfs_add_default_group to add a directory. nvmet makes heavy > use of that.
Just to clarify. We can create a dir from the kernel already. It is no problem. I am doing that in this patchset with configfs_register_group. What Bart was requesting originally and what is missing is being able to add a symlink from the kernel. I have not fully looked into it, but I think it would be something like taking part of configfs_symlink and making it so we can call it with config_items for the 2 items to be symlinked.
