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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Pass information about device open/close to low-level
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:12:16 -0400
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 04:10:32PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> James:
> 
> Something like the patch below has been requested by the virtualization
> people.

Who are "the virtualization people"?

Either way this idea is a really bad one, and if you check history long
enough you'd notice we had all that crap in kernel before 2.6 and got
rid of it all.