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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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