Re: [PATCH] block: Revert "[SCSI] genhd: add a new attribute "alias" in gendisk"

Bernd Schubert
2011-11-24T12:21:53Z

On 11/09/2011 05:25 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> This reverts commit a72c5e5eb738033938ab30d6a634b74d1d060f10.
>
> The commit introduced alias for block devices which is intended to be
> used during logging although actual usage hasn't been committed yet.
> This approach adds very limited benefit (raw log might be easier to
> follow) which can be trivially implemented in userland but has a lot
> of problems.
>

I have asked this before, but have been entirely ignored. So again, how
do do you want to implement it in user space, if you are monitoring a
system over a serial line, so all kernel messages go over that serial
line to another system, without any local user space being involved?

Thanks,
Bernd