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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Nao Nishijima <nao.nishijima.xt@hitachi.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Persistent device name using alias name
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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