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Why?: There are occasions where userspace would like to access sysfs attributes for a device but it may not know how sysfs has named the device or the path. For example what is the sysfs path for /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3160827AS_5MT004CK? With this change a call to stat(2) returns the major:minor then userspace can see that /sys/dev/block/8:32 links to /sys/block/sdc. What are the alternatives?: 1/ Add an ioctl to return the path: Doable, but sysfs is meant to reduce the need to proliferate ioctl interfaces into the kernel, so this seems counter productive. 2/ Use udev to create these symlinks: Also doable, but it adds a udev dependency to utilities that might be running in a limited environment like an initramfs. 3/ Do a full-tree search of sysfs. [kay.sievers@vrfy.org: fix duplicate registrations] [kay.sievers@vrfy.org: cleanup suggestions] Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Reviewed-by: SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Acked-by: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> |
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| power | ||
| attribute_container.c | ||
| base.h | ||
| bus.c | ||
| class.c | ||
| core.c | ||
| cpu.c | ||
| dd.c | ||
| devres.c | ||
| dma-mapping.c | ||
| driver.c | ||
| firmware_class.c | ||
| firmware.c | ||
| hypervisor.c | ||
| init.c | ||
| isa.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| map.c | ||
| memory.c | ||
| module.c | ||
| node.c | ||
| platform.c | ||
| sys.c | ||
| topology.c | ||
| transport_class.c | ||