linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: Revert "[SCSI] genhd: add a new attribute "alias" in gendisk"

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Date:	Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:21:53 +0100
From:	Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@...m.fraunhofer.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Revert "[SCSI] genhd: add a new attribute "alias"
 in gendisk"

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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