On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 07:59:26PM +0900, Nao Nishijima wrote: > Hi, > > This patch series provide an "alias name" of the disk into kernel messages. > Users can assign a preferred name to an alias name of the device. > > A raw device name of a disk does not always point a same disk at each boot-up > time. Therefore, users have to use persistent device names, which udev creates > to always access the same disk. However, kernel messages still display the raw > device names. > > My proposal is that users can use and see persistent device names which were > assigned by they because users expect same name to point same disk anytime. > > Why need to modify kernel messages? > - We can see mapping of device names and persistent device names in udev log. > If those logs output to syslog, we can search persistent device name from > device name, but it can cause a large amount of syslog output. > > - If we can use the persistent device names and can always see the same name on > the kernel log, we don't need to pay additional cost for searching and picking > a correct pair of device name and persistent device name from udev log. > > - Kernel messages are output to serial console when kenel crashes, > it's so hard to convert device name to alias name. > > > Of course, I am going to modify the commands using device name so that users > can use alias names. Please do that first, and then you will not need any kernel changes in the first place :) Anyway, you all know my objections to this patch series, but again, as I'm not the block subsystem maintainer, I really can't do anything. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
