On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 11:30:00AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 08:25 -0800, Tejun Heo wrote: > > This reverts commit a72c5e5eb738033938ab30d6a634b74d1d060f10. [...] > No, I can't agree with this ... if you propose a working alternative, > I'm listening, but in the absence of one, I think the hack fills a gap "The hack fills a gap" -- the definitive guide to Operation System API designing by James Bottomley; ISBN-666-666. ;-) If you open this Pandora's box then one day end-users will ask for the feature in all userspace utils. It's not about printk() only, it's about aliases for block devices. It's pretty invasive from long-term point of view... Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- 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