Greg KH writes:
>> Following the discussion in [1], the attached patch creates /sys/class/block
>> as a symlink to /sys/block. The patch applies to 2.6.11-rc4-bk7.
>>
>> Please cc: me on any replies - I'm not subscribed to the mailing list.
> Hm, your patch is linewrapped, and can't be applied :(
Bah, and I did send it to myself first, but I guess my mailer un-flowed it
for me :-(. I'll try to find a better mailer.
> But more importantly:
>> static void disk_release(struct kobject * kobj)
>
> Did you try to remove a disk (like a usb device) and see what happens
> here? Hint, this isn't the proper place to remove the symlink...
Er, yeah. Oops.
*Is* there a sensible place to remove the symlink from, though? Nobody
seems to call subsystem_unregister(&block_subsys), which is the place I'd
expect to add a call to, and I can't see anything that's otherwise
obvious...
Regards,
Malcolm
[resent using the right address for linux-kernel. Sorry for the duplicate,
Greg]