On 3/1/23 08:27, Lee Jones wrote:
Pavel, I see that you are active now - could you please prioritise this one.
Lee - Just FYI, Pavel did respond. Unfortunately, he doesn't feel that this can go in with its current sysfs interface, and making the change that he wants would require changes to the block subsystem (adding an in- kernel API to look up a block device by its kernel name, rather than its major & minor numbers or a special file path). Similar changes have been rejected in the past by the block subsystem maintainers. The position I have seen is that major & minor numbers, or device special files from which they can be determined, is *the* interface to block devices. I've also had some pretty negative experiences when interacting with the block subsystem community - unnecessary profanity, etc. Given that history, I don't see much prospect that I (an unknown newb) would succeed in convincing the block subsystem maintainers to add the API required to implement the interface that Pavel wants. So I'm pretty much done trying to push this thing unless something changes that leads me to think that there's actually a decent chance of success. Hopefully that makes sense. -- ======================================================================== Google Where SkyNet meets Idiocracy ========================================================================
