From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Nao Nishijima <nao.nishijima.xt@hitachi.com>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Revert "[SCSI] genhd: add a new attribute "alias" in gendisk"
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 20:51:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111109195157.GN16397@nb.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1320859800.8294.27.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com>
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 11:30:00AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 08:25 -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > This reverts commit a72c5e5eb738033938ab30d6a634b74d1d060f10.
[...]
> No, I can't agree with this ... if you propose a working alternative,
> I'm listening, but in the absence of one, I think the hack fills a gap
"The hack fills a gap" -- the definitive guide to Operation System
API designing by James Bottomley; ISBN-666-666.
;-)
If you open this Pandora's box then one day end-users will ask for
the feature in all userspace utils. It's not about printk() only,
it's about aliases for block devices. It's pretty invasive from
long-term point of view...
Karel
--
Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
http://karelzak.blogspot.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-09 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-09 16:25 [PATCH] block: Revert "[SCSI] genhd: add a new attribute "alias" in gendisk" Tejun Heo
2011-11-09 16:53 ` Greg KH
2011-11-09 17:19 ` Kay Sievers
2011-11-09 17:30 ` James Bottomley
2011-11-09 17:36 ` Greg KH
2011-11-09 17:38 ` Kay Sievers
2011-11-09 19:51 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2011-11-09 18:54 ` Jens Axboe
2011-11-10 21:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-11-11 14:50 ` Nao Nishijima
2011-11-11 17:36 ` Greg KH
2011-11-11 19:09 ` Douglas Gilbert
2011-11-24 12:21 ` Bernd Schubert
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