On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 17:53, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 08:25:12AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote: >> This reverts commit a72c5e5eb738033938ab30d6a634b74d1d060f10. >> >> The commit introduced alias for block devices which is intended to be >> used during logging although actual usage hasn't been committed yet. >> This approach adds very limited benefit (raw log might be easier to >> follow) which can be trivially implemented in userland but has a lot >> of problems. >> >> It is much worse than netif renames because it doesn't rename the >> actual device but just adds conveninence name which isn't used >> universally or enforced. Everything internal including device lookup >> and sysfs still uses the internal name and nothing prevents two >> devices from using conflicting alias - ie. sda can have sdb as its >> alias. >> >> This has been nacked by people working on device driver core, block >> layer and kernel-userland interface and shouldn't have been >> upstreamed. Revert it. >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1155104 >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/68632 >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/69776 >> >> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Nao Nishijima <nao.nishijima.xt@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> > > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> Thanks, Kay -- 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
