Re: "block" symlink in sysfs for a multifunction device

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 03:26:15PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:50:19 -0800, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > $ ls -l /sys/block/uba/device/
> > -r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 Dec 13 21:31 bNumEndpoints
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 Dec 13 21:31 block:uba -> ../../../../../../block/uba
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 Dec 13 21:31 block:ubb -> ../../../../../../block/ubb
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 Dec 13 21:31 block:ubc -> ../../../../../../block/ubc
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 Dec 13 21:31 block:ubd -> ../../../../../../block/ubd
> 
> Greg, Jeremy is not happy about this.
> 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175563
> > ------- Additional Comments From katzj@xxxxxxxxxx  2005-12-14 18:05 EST -------
> > Actually, this is problematic.  It makes it so that the single device directory
> > corresponds to more than one device which we can't handle with kudzu :-(

Well, how do you handle it for class devices then?

And if this isn't acceptable, what would be?

Just because kudzu is messed up... :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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