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Why?: There are occasions where userspace would like to access sysfs attributes for a device but it may not know how sysfs has named the device or the path. For example what is the sysfs path for /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3160827AS_5MT004CK? With this change a call to stat(2) returns the major:minor then userspace can see that /sys/dev/block/8:32 links to /sys/block/sdc. What are the alternatives?: 1/ Add an ioctl to return the path: Doable, but sysfs is meant to reduce the need to proliferate ioctl interfaces into the kernel, so this seems counter productive. 2/ Use udev to create these symlinks: Also doable, but it adds a udev dependency to utilities that might be running in a limited environment like an initramfs. 3/ Do a full-tree search of sysfs. [kay.sievers@vrfy.org: fix duplicate registrations] [kay.sievers@vrfy.org: cleanup suggestions] Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Reviewed-by: SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Acked-by: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> |
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| .. | ||
| configfs | ||
| 9p.txt | ||
| 00-INDEX | ||
| adfs.txt | ||
| affs.txt | ||
| afs.txt | ||
| automount-support.txt | ||
| befs.txt | ||
| bfs.txt | ||
| cifs.txt | ||
| coda.txt | ||
| cramfs.txt | ||
| dentry-locking.txt | ||
| directory-locking | ||
| dlmfs.txt | ||
| dnotify.txt | ||
| ecryptfs.txt | ||
| Exporting | ||
| ext2.txt | ||
| ext3.txt | ||
| ext4.txt | ||
| files.txt | ||
| fuse.txt | ||
| gfs2-glocks.txt | ||
| gfs2.txt | ||
| hfs.txt | ||
| hfsplus.txt | ||
| hpfs.txt | ||
| inotify.txt | ||
| isofs.txt | ||
| jfs.txt | ||
| Locking | ||
| locks.txt | ||
| mandatory-locking.txt | ||
| ncpfs.txt | ||
| nfs-rdma.txt | ||
| nfsroot.txt | ||
| ntfs.txt | ||
| ocfs2.txt | ||
| porting | ||
| proc.txt | ||
| quota.txt | ||
| ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt | ||
| relay.txt | ||
| romfs.txt | ||
| rpc-cache.txt | ||
| seq_file.txt | ||
| sharedsubtree.txt | ||
| smbfs.txt | ||
| spufs.txt | ||
| sysfs-pci.txt | ||
| sysfs.txt | ||
| sysv-fs.txt | ||
| tmpfs.txt | ||
| ubifs.txt | ||
| udf.txt | ||
| ufs.txt | ||
| vfat.txt | ||
| vfs.txt | ||
| xfs.txt | ||
| xip.txt | ||