Re: [PATCH] Symlink /sys/class/block to /sys/block

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Feb 22 2005 - 18:27:22 EST


On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:06:34PM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:29:13PM +0000, Malcolm Rowe wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Shouldn't we really move /sys/block to /sys/class/block and put the
> symlink from there to /sys/block with the hope of removing it one day?

When struct class_device can support children, we can do just that. But
that support has not been added, yet...

thanks,

greg k-h
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