Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751083AbXANGOx (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:14:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751106AbXANGOx (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:14:53 -0500 Received: from muan.mtu.ru ([195.34.34.229]:3209 "EHLO muan.mtu.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751083AbXANGOx (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:14:53 -0500 From: Andrey Borzenkov Subject: Re: No more "device" symlinks for classes To: Pierre Ossman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:10:59 +0300 References: <45A97089.5090004@drzeus.cx> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-Id: <20070114061104.1C53839AF7F@muan.mtu.ru> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1563 Lines: 40 Pierre Ossman wrote: > Hi guys, > > I just wanted to know the rationale behind > 99ef3ef8d5f2f5b5312627127ad63df27c0d0d05 (no more "device" symlink in > class devices). I thought that was a rather convenient way of finding > which physical device the class device was coupled to. > Actually I wonder why those links still present even when I told system not to create them? {pts/1}% grep DEPRE /boot/config # CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set # CONFIG_PM_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set {pts/1}% find /sys/class -name device /sys/class/pcmcia_socket/pcmcia_socket2/device /sys/class/pcmcia_socket/pcmcia_socket1/device /sys/class/pcmcia_socket/pcmcia_socket0/device /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/device /sys/class/usb_host/usb_host1/device /sys/class/scsi_disk/0:0:0:0/device /sys/class/scsi_device/1:0:0:0/device /sys/class/scsi_device/0:0:0:0/device /sys/class/scsi_host/host1/device /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/device /sys/class/net/eth0/device /sys/class/net/eth1/device /sys/class/input/input1/ts0/device /sys/class/input/input1/mouse0/device /sys/class/input/input1/event1/device /sys/class/input/input1/device /sys/class/input/input0/event0/device /sys/class/input/input0/device {pts/1}% uname -a Linux cooker 2.6.20-rc5-1avb #10 Sat Jan 13 14:05:34 MSK 2007 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GNU/Linux -andrey - 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/