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From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] loop: always return block size in LOOP_GET_STATUS
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 01:22:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170818082226.GK2459@vader> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a42bb8d-1850-8d6c-11c6-bf8632af5e7a@suse.de>

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 10:12:51AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 08/18/2017 10:05 AM, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 09:56:26AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> >> On 08/18/2017 09:47 AM, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> [ .. ]
> >>>
> >>> I actually checked losetup, it works just fine with LO_FLAGS_BLOCKSIZE
> >>> always set and lo_init[0] always filled in.
> >>>
> >> The original argument I had with the util-linux maintainer did not
> >> revolve so much around technical details :-)
> > 
> > Karel, what were your concerns here?
> > 
> It wasn't Karel, it was our guy.
> Doesn't make it any better, though...

I just went through the code and util-linux doesn't mention lo_init at
all except for the definition, and everywhere it's using lo_flags would
work fine with the behavior I implemented here. Unless there's an actual
issue someone can point out, I see no reason to not do it this way.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-18  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-18  6:15 [PATCH 0/2] loop: LOOP_FLAGS_BLOCKSIZE fixes Omar Sandoval
2017-08-18  6:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] loop: always return block size in LOOP_GET_STATUS Omar Sandoval
2017-08-18  7:18   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-18  7:38     ` Omar Sandoval
2017-08-18  7:43       ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-18  7:47         ` Omar Sandoval
2017-08-18  7:56           ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-18  8:05             ` Omar Sandoval
2017-08-18  8:12               ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-18  8:22                 ` Omar Sandoval [this message]
2017-08-18  9:22                   ` Karel Zak
2017-08-18 16:44                     ` Omar Sandoval
2017-08-18 17:25                       ` Karel Zak
2017-08-18  9:39                   ` Karel Zak
2017-08-18  6:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] loop: fix hang if LOOP_SET_STATUS gets invalid blocksize or encrypt type Omar Sandoval
2017-08-18  7:20   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-18  6:51 ` [PATCH 0/2] loop: LOOP_FLAGS_BLOCKSIZE fixes Omar Sandoval

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