From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Remove virtio_blk VBID ioctl Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:00:19 +0930 Message-ID: <201006211100.19719.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> References: <1276886283-1571-1-git-send-email-ryanh@us.ibm.com> <1276886283-1571-2-git-send-email-ryanh@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, john cooper To: Ryan Harper Return-path: Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:35256 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757231Ab0FUBa0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:30:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1276886283-1571-2-git-send-email-ryanh@us.ibm.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:08:03 am Ryan Harper wrote: > With the availablility of a sysfs device attribute for examining disk serial > numbers the ioctl is no longer needed. The user-space changes for this aren't > upstream yet so we don't have any users to worry about. If John Cooper acks this, I'll push it to Linus immediately. Unfortunately we offered this interface in 2.6.34, and we're now removing it. That's unpleasant. Thanks, Rusty. PS. John should have been cc'd on these patches! From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42496 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OQVqJ-0007je-9w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:30:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQVqI-0007fF-8F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:30:31 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:32931) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQVqH-0007ev-SV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:30:30 -0400 From: Rusty Russell Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:00:19 +0930 References: <1276886283-1571-1-git-send-email-ryanh@us.ibm.com> <1276886283-1571-2-git-send-email-ryanh@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1276886283-1571-2-git-send-email-ryanh@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201006211100.19719.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/2] Remove virtio_blk VBID ioctl List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Ryan Harper Cc: john cooper , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:08:03 am Ryan Harper wrote: > With the availablility of a sysfs device attribute for examining disk serial > numbers the ioctl is no longer needed. The user-space changes for this aren't > upstream yet so we don't have any users to worry about. If John Cooper acks this, I'll push it to Linus immediately. Unfortunately we offered this interface in 2.6.34, and we're now removing it. That's unpleasant. Thanks, Rusty. PS. John should have been cc'd on these patches!