Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422664AbWBVUXF (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:23:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422668AbWBVUWr (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:22:47 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:9396 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1422664AbWBVUWZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:22:25 -0500 X-Authenticated: #428038 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:22:19 +0100 From: Matthias Andree To: Greg KH Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Douglas Gilbert , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: lsscsi-0.17 released Message-ID: <20060222202219.GA25121@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: Greg KH , Matthew Wilcox , Douglas Gilbert , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <43FBA4CD.6000505@torque.net> <43FC7CCB.4090508@torque.net> <20060222160602.GB17473@merlin.emma.line.org> <43FC90E4.10805@torque.net> <20060222163426.GG28587@parisc-linux.org> <20060222171438.GA20272@kroah.com> <20060222180015.GB20880@merlin.emma.line.org> <20060222183226.GA12542@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060222183226.GA12542@kroah.com> X-PGP-Key: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/keys/GPGKEY.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1136 Lines: 32 On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 07:00:15PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > > OK, just post an announcement to l-k when sysfs has stabilized enough to > > be worth bothering. > > Um, this was a "bugfix". Granted. > 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... If you say so. I'd call it pure pragmatism: if the sysfs interface still changes every other week or so, it's just annoying to chase these changes in applications, so it seems just practical to wait until all the bug fixes that require interface changes are in and the rate of incompatible changes is well below 2/year -- and all the interesting stuff is there. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/