Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Schubert <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] block: Revert "[SCSI] genhd: add a new attribute "alias" in gendisk" | Date | Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:21:53 +0100 |
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On 11/09/2011 05:25 PM, 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. >
I have asked this before, but have been entirely ignored. So again, how do do you want to implement it in user space, if you are monitoring a system over a serial line, so all kernel messages go over that serial line to another system, without any local user space being involved?
Thanks, Bernd
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