On 4/8/19 9:14 AM, Paolo Valente wrote: > > >> Il giorno 8 apr 2019, alle ore 17:08, Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> ha scritto: >> >> On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 09:05:19AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: >>> I did consider that, and that would be doable. But honestly, I'm having a >>> hard time seeing what issue we are attempting to fix by doing this. >> >> Yeah, I guess the real fix would be to update the documentation and the >> expectations user-space has. Including eventual re-write of some udev rules or >> whatever is facing these files. But to me that sounds more like a systemd or >> even distro thing than a kernel thing. >> > > Unfortunately the user-space people I have interacted with find crazy > to have to change their software to call bfq.weight the weight of a > group. And are not willing to do it [1]. Then you need to educate them. Some of the issues were called out years ago, at the time when we could have potentially renamed. A rename now will solve nothing. -- Jens Axboe
