From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751890AbdJCQW3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2017 12:22:29 -0400 Received: from mail-wr0-f177.google.com ([209.85.128.177]:48443 "EHLO mail-wr0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750820AbdJCQW1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2017 12:22:27 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QCh2QY+BmKYtARsa3QAYcXf+H7riPDSfDlJ8tdZLkBodUXzvr3WGvCggoTOPO7tjyXtEfgp7A== Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: drop "sending ioctl to a partition" message From: Paolo Bonzini To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, linux-block@vger.kernel.org References: <1506005362-13429-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-ID: <019433fb-9a89-4ef9-6d76-a817a2f52a0f@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 18:22:23 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1506005362-13429-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 21/09/2017 16:49, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > After the first few months, the message has not led to many bug reports. > It's been almost five years now, and in practice the main source of > it seems to be MTIOCGET that someone is using to detect tape devices. > While we could whitelist it just like CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY, this patch > just removes the message altogether. > > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini Ping (with fixed email address for Jens)... Paolo