netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/6] tagged sysfs support

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Date:	Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:25:09 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...et.ca>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] tagged sysfs support

On 03/31/2010 02:51 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Another problem to solve is that sysfs does not allow us to symlink
> regular files, only directories, so we can currently not create the
> class-wide attributes as symlinks to the proper file in
> /sys/subsystem/.

Making sysfs allow symlinks to attributes shouldn't be too hard if
it's gonna help make things more logical overall.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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