On 2011-11-09 17:25, 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 Ack on this, it seems both unneeded, unused, and a bad hack. We need to revert it before 3.2 rolls out, otherwise we are stuck with it. -- Jens Axboe -- 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
