From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, john cooper <john.cooper@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Remove virtio_blk VBID ioctl
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:00:19 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201006211100.19719.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1276886283-1571-2-git-send-email-ryanh@us.ibm.com>
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!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-21 1:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-18 18:38 [PATCH 1/2] Add 'serial' attribute to virtio-blk devices Ryan Harper
2010-06-18 18:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] Remove virtio_blk VBID ioctl Ryan Harper
2010-06-21 1:30 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2010-06-21 2:30 ` Ryan Harper
2010-06-21 5:07 ` john cooper
2010-06-19 8:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add 'serial' attribute to virtio-blk devices Blue Swirl
2010-06-19 10:58 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-06-19 15:59 ` Blue Swirl
2010-06-21 1:52 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-21 5:51 ` john cooper
2010-06-21 16:43 ` Ryan Harper
2010-06-21 17:11 ` john cooper
2010-06-21 23:25 ` Rusty Russell
2010-06-22 3:40 ` john cooper
2010-06-21 12:44 ` [Qemu-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-21 16:45 ` Ryan Harper
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-06-24 3:19 [PATCH 0/2] v2: " Ryan Harper
2010-06-24 3:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] Remove virtio_blk VBID ioctl Ryan Harper
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