Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:32:26 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>,
       linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lsscsi-0.17 released
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 07:00:15PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > It was changed as there would be more than one "block" symlink in a
> > device's directory if more than one block device was attached to a
> > single struct device.  For example, ub and multi-lun devices (there were
> > other reports of this happening for scsi devices too at the time from
> > what I remember.)
> 
> OK, just post an announcement to l-k when sysfs has stabilized enough to
> be worth bothering.

Um, this was a "bugfix".  The kernel was creating multiple symlinks with
the same name, in the same directory, pointing to different locations.
How do you expect us to fix that in a format that does not change the
name of the symlink?

People sure are grumpy this morning...

greg k-h
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