On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 08:34:23AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 03:06:26PM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > > > You have access to a block device here, please use dev_warn() instead > > > here for that, that makes it obvious as to what device a "concurrent > > > blktrace" was attempted for. > > > > The block device may be empty, one example is for scsi-generic, but I'll > > use buts->name. > > Is blktrace on /dev/sg something we intentionally support, or just by > some accident of history? Given all the pains it causes I'd be tempted > to just remove the support and see if anyone screams. >From what I can tell I think it was a historic and brutal mistake. I am more than happy to remove it. Re-adding support would just be a symlink. Luis