Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752894AbYJOAuY (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:50:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750975AbYJOAuK (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:50:10 -0400 Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:41182 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750954AbYJOAuI (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:50:08 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: "Serge E. Hallyn" Cc: Tejun Heo , Greg KH , Al Viro , Benjamin Thery , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , Linus Torvalds References: <20080922153455.GA6238@kroah.com> <48D8FC1E.6000601@bull.net> <20081003101331.GH28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20081005053236.GA9472@kroah.com> <20081007222726.GA9465@kroah.com> <48EBF21E.40709@kernel.org> <48F45075.7000003@kernel.org> <20081014185320.GA24908@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:48:20 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20081014185320.GA24908@us.ibm.com> (Serge E. Hallyn's message of "Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:53:20 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=mx04.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=24.130.11.59;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 24.130.11.59 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: too long (recipient list exceeded maximum allowed size of 128 bytes) X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa01 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;"Serge E. Hallyn" X-Spam-Relay-Country: X-Spam-Report: * -1.8 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG * 0.0 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% * [score: 0.4842] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa01 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] * 0.0 XM_SPF_Neutral SPF-Neutral Subject: Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:40:56 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mx04.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 736 Lines: 18 "Serge E. Hallyn" writes: > Again fuse doesn't address the *core* issue (sysfs needing a way to > create files for multiple devicenames with same name). But I believe > Benjamin was looking into a minimal patch to fix that. Benjamin, > have you gotten anywhere with that? I would love to hear a minimal strategy for that. The only minimal strategy user space wise is to create multiple superblocks. Anything else I an think of violates backwards compatibility. Eric -- 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/