From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Nao Nishijima <nao.nishijima.xt@hitachi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, kay.sievers@vrfy.org,
jcm@redhat.com, dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net,
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com, dgilbert@interlog.com,
stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de, hare@suse.de
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Persistent device name using alias name
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 07:54:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110708145408.GA2283@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110708084547.2091.55262.stgit@ltc197.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 05:45:47PM +0900, Nao Nishijima wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch series provides an "alias name" of the disk into kernel and procfs
> messages. The user can assign a preferred name to an alias name of the device.
>
> Based on previous discussion (*), I changed patches as follows
> - This is "alias name"
> - An "alias name" is stored in gendisk struct
> - Add document to Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block
> - When the user changes an "alias name", kernel notifies udev
>
> (*) http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=130812625531219&w=2
I don't like it and I don't think it will really solve the root problem
you are trying to address, but as the patches don't touch any code I
maintain, there's not much I can do to object to it.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-08 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-08 8:45 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Persistent device name using alias name Nao Nishijima
2011-07-08 8:46 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] block: add a new attribute "alias name" in gendisk structure Nao Nishijima
2011-07-08 8:46 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] sd: modify printk for alias_name Nao Nishijima
2011-07-09 5:42 ` [PATCH] scsi: Make functions out of logging macros Joe Perches
2011-07-09 13:32 ` Nao Nishijima
2011-07-08 8:46 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] fs: modify disk_name() for alias name Nao Nishijima
2011-07-08 8:46 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] sd: cleanup " Nao Nishijima
2011-07-08 14:54 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-07-08 15:41 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] Persistent device name using " Kay Sievers
2011-07-08 15:47 ` Greg KH
2011-07-08 15:54 ` James Bottomley
2011-07-08 16:04 ` Greg KH
2011-07-08 16:17 ` James Bottomley
2011-07-08 16:32 ` Greg KH
2011-07-08 16:15 ` Kay Sievers
2011-07-08 16:38 ` Kay Sievers
2011-07-11 11:47 ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-07-09 6:11 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2011-08-03 17:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-08-10 2:01 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2011-07-08 19:45 ` Karel Zak
2011-07-08 19:58 ` Greg KH
2011-07-15 6:55 ` Nao Nishijima
2011-07-15 12:48 ` Karel Zak
2011-07-16 11:40 ` Nao Nishijima
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