Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:34:41 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [sysfs]: make readlink result shorter when the symlink
	and its target shared some base sysfs subdirectory
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:34:20PM +0800, Denis Cheng wrote:
> this is especially useful after /sys/slab introduced, for example:
> 
> $ ls -l /sys/slab/mm_struct
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-10-31 17:40 /sys/slab/mm_struct -> :0000448
> 
> instead of:
> 
> $ ls -l /sys/slab/mm_struct
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-10-31 17:40 /sys/slab/mm_struct -> ../slab/:0000448
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>

As pretty as this change is, it's not really necessary, right?

Is there any other place in /sys that would benefit from this?

thanks,

greg k-h
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