On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:25:15 -0700 Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:37:03PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > > H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> Mark Lord wrote: > >>> > >>> Yeah, that would be just as good, really. Maybe even better. > >>> > >>> Mark Lord wrote (later on): > >>>> Instead, software has to search everything inside /sys/block/ > >>>> looking for a "dev" file whose contents match, > >>>> rather than just trying to access something like this: > >>>> > >>>> /sys/block/8:1/start > >>>> or > >>>> /sys/block/majors/8/minors/1/start > >>>> > >>>> Or any one of a number of similar ways to arrange it. > >>> .. > >> It shouldn't be under /sys/block... there are enough many things that scan > >> /sys/block and assume any directory underneath it has the current format. > > .. > > > > So long as we only add things, and not remove them, then any software > > that scans /sys/block/ shouldn't care, really. > > > > But yes, it could go elsewhere, too. > > Perhaps a /sys/dev/ directory, populated with symbolic links > > (or hard links?) back to the /sys/block/ entries, something like this: > > > > /sys/dev/block/8:0 -> ../../../block/sda > > /sys/dev/block/8:1 -> ../../../block/sda/sda1 > > /sys/dev/block/8:2 -> ../../../block/sda/sda2 > > ... > > > > That's just a suggestion, really. > > And what about character devices? > > > > Perhaps Greg will chime in. > > I've been waiting to see if sanity will take hold of anyone here. > > Come on people, adding symlinks for device major:minor numbers in sysfs > to save a few 10s of lines of userspace code? Can things get sillier? > > You can add a single udev rule to probably build these in a tree in /dev > if you really need such a thing... > > And what's wrong with your new ioctl recomendation? Ah, there's some sanity. :) --- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
