From: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Revert "[SCSI] genhd: add a new attribute "alias" in gendisk"
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:21:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECE36E1.20809@itwm.fraunhofer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111109162512.GB1260@google.com>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-24 12:21 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
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 [this message]
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