From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754828Ab1KXMWQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:22:16 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:37130 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754668Ab1KXMWP (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:22:15 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Bernd Schubert Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Revert "[SCSI] genhd: add a new attribute "alias" in gendisk" Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:21:53 +0100 Message-ID: <4ECE36E1.20809@itwm.fraunhofer.de> References: <20111109162512.GB1260@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tc-gate1.pci.uni-heidelberg.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20111109162512.GB1260@google.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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