From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
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justin.li
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sd: preserve sysfs updates to max_sectors_kb
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:37:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1bmlva9i6.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1504953142.5442.1.camel@suse.com> (Martin Wilck's message of "Sat, 09 Sep 2017 12:32:22 +0200")
Martin,
> Could you please explain why you think Don's patch is wrong? User
> settings being discarded because of a BLKRRPART ioctl violates the
> principle of least surprise. With Don's patch, that won't happen any
> more. If hardware limits change, whether they increase or decrease, the
> patch will also do the Right Thing, AFAICS. Increasing hw limits will
> not automatically increase the sw limit, but IMO that's actually
> expected.
I have been mulling over this for a while.
I suggest the following...
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-28 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-18 21:00 [PATCH] sd: preserve sysfs updates to max_sectors_kb Don Brace
2017-08-18 21:05 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-08-18 21:29 ` Don Brace
2017-08-18 21:46 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-08-21 19:12 ` Don Brace
2017-08-21 19:53 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-08-21 20:14 ` Don Brace
2017-08-29 17:41 ` Don Brace
2017-08-29 17:42 ` Don Brace
2017-08-29 18:13 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-08-29 18:36 ` Don Brace
2017-08-29 19:41 ` Don Brace
2017-08-29 22:25 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-08-29 22:32 ` Don Brace
2017-08-29 23:00 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-08-30 1:24 ` Martin K. Petersen
2017-09-09 10:32 ` Martin Wilck
2017-09-28 1:37 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2017-09-28 1:38 ` [PATCH] scsi: sd: Do not override max_sectors_kb sysfs setting Martin K. Petersen
2017-09-29 12:26 ` Martin Wilck
2017-09-29 13:46 ` Don Brace
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