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SubjectRe: [RFC] fix sysfs symlinks
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 09:07:12AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> What about other bus types? Do I really need to teach userspace about
> the relationships between all the various bus types we have on ARM and
> how to work out what these relationships are by guessing?
>
> Please. The symlinks are necessary and they are the sole source of
> the relationship information.

In which case you want them to be associated with target, not the current
pathname of target. And no, I don't buy the "so far all renames happen *here*
and all symlinks are pointing *there*, so we don't care" - that won't last.

When do we have a legitimate reason for dangling symlinks in sysfs, anyway?
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