Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Tue Oct 14 2008 - 20:50:31 EST


"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Again fuse doesn't address the *core* issue (sysfs needing a way to
> create files for multiple devicenames with same name). But I believe
> Benjamin was looking into a minimal patch to fix that. Benjamin,
> have you gotten anywhere with that?

I would love to hear a minimal strategy for that.

The only minimal strategy user space wise is to create multiple superblocks.
Anything else I an think of violates backwards compatibility.

Eric
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