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Message-ID: <20071031143441.GA7128@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:34:41 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To: Denis Cheng <crquan@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [sysfs]: make readlink result shorter when the symlink
and its target shared some base sysfs subdirectory
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@...il.com>
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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