From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755812AbbAaOuS (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2015 09:50:18 -0500 Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de ([80.67.31.39]:38825 "EHLO smtprelay01.ispgateway.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752683AbbAaOuD (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jan 2015 09:50:03 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 344 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 09:50:03 EST Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 15:43:16 +0100 From: Andreas Klauer To: Paul Clements Cc: Markus Pargmann , "nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net" , Wouter Verhelst , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "kernel@pengutronix.de" Subject: Re: [Nbd] [RFC 4/4] nbd: Add support for nbd as root device Message-ID: <20150131144316.GA4328@EIS> References: <1421156665-27318-1-git-send-email-mpa@pengutronix.de> <1421156665-27318-5-git-send-email-mpa@pengutronix.de> <20150129234254.GD15853@grep.be> <20150130080400.GD16879@pengutronix.de> <20150130173014.GA16754@grep.be> <20150131123821.GI16879@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Df-Sender: bXNtdHBAbWV0YW1vcnBoZXIuZGU= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 08:52:18AM -0500, Paul Clements wrote: > The pid is also used to break a hung connection. See nbd_xmit_timeout. I'm using the pid to find the first free NBD device... If it's going away I guess I'll have to stick to /proc/partitions...? Although last time I tried, it did not work too well. (discussion on the NBD list, March 2014, "How to find a free NBD device") Regards Andreas