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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: drop "sending ioctl to a partition" message
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 23:25:26 -0700
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 06:22:23PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 21/09/2017 16:49, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > After the first few months, the message has not led to many bug reports.
> > It's been almost five years now, and in practice the main source of
> > it seems to be MTIOCGET that someone is using to detect tape devices.
> > While we could whitelist it just like CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY, this patch
> > just removes the message altogether.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> 
> Ping (with fixed email address for Jens)...

How about implementing the revised version I suggested?