Re: [PATCH 4/4] block: expose devt for GENHD_FL_HIDDEN disks

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On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 09:20:16PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 01:25:33PM -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> > > And I've checked back - lsblk actually works just fine at the moment.
> > > But it turns out once we create the slave links it stops working,
> > > which is a really good argument against the first two patches, which
> > > would otherwise seem nice..
> > 
> > Which is why I have sent the "paths/" patchset in the first place. Because I
> > did some homework and read the previous discussion about this, and how lsblk
> > failure to behave with slave links led to the revert of the slaves/holders
> > patch by Dr. Hannes.
> 
> Sorry, I did not actually notice that Hannes patch manually created
> the same slaves/holders link we otherwise create using the block layer
> APIs.  Had I realized those actually were the same that had saved
> me some work.
> 
> So I guess the v2 paths/ link patch from you is the least of all evils.
> Hannes, can you look over that one?

No hard feelings. Sorry we had to go through all these messages to make that
clear.

This should be Message-Id: <20181101232955.19329-1-cascardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> and
Hannes was on Cc as well.

Regards.
Cascardo.



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