Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...>, Tejun Heo <htejun@...>, Mark Lord <lkml@...>, Greg KH <gregkh@...>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...>, IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@...>, linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...>
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Last I recall, Greg was vehemently opposed to having direct path access
by device number in sysfs, but many other people saw benefit.
Myself (the originator), I simply decided that my sysfs access code has
to work with older kernels too, so for now I'm just doing a brute force
tree search to find things in sysfs. I did get the code size down smaller
for it, but it's still a pain.
When the direct access feature goes in, I'll just change my code to try it first,
and then still fall back to the tree search method on failure.
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Good!
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