Re: [PATCH] [sysfs]: make readlink result shorter when the symlinkand its target shared some base sysfs subdirectory

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:34:20PM +0800, Denis Cheng wrote:
> this is especially useful after /sys/slab introduced, for example:
> 
> $ ls -l /sys/slab/mm_struct
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-10-31 17:40 /sys/slab/mm_struct -> :0000448
> 
> instead of:
> 
> $ ls -l /sys/slab/mm_struct
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-10-31 17:40 /sys/slab/mm_struct -> ../slab/:0000448
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@xxxxxxxxx>

As pretty as this change is, it's not really necessary, right?

Is there any other place in /sys that would benefit from this?

thanks,

greg k-h
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