linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [ConfigFS]: Allow symbolic links from a SysFS struct kobject source.

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Message-Id: <1224273044.5556.353.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org>
Date:	Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:50:44 -0700
From:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
To:	Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@...cle.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linux-iSCSI.org Target Dev" 
	<linux-iscsi-target-dev@...glegroups.com>,
	SCST-Devel <scst-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [ConfigFS]: Allow symbolic links from a SysFS struct
	kobject source.

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 12:39 -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:55:55PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > Hi Joel, Greg and Co,
> > 
> > Here is the the first working code for allowing configfs to handle
> > symlinks from sysfs struct kobject based code.  Here is the commit:
> > passing struct kobject into generic target_core_mod subsystem plugins
> > for locating struct block_device and struct scsi_device..  
> 
> NAK.
> 
> As Greg said, this just doesn't work.  Don't go down this path.
> 

Fair enough, I will kill it from my tree. :-)

Thanks for your comments!

--nab



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