linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] [RFC] genhd: add a new attribute in device structure

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Message-ID: <1308149005.2616.10.camel@mulgrave>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:43:25 -0400
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Nao Nishijima <nao.nishijima.xt@...achi.com>
Cc:	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	greg@...ah.com, kay.sievers@...y.org, jcm@...hat.com, hare@...e.de,
	stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de, yrl.pp-manager.tt@...achi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] [RFC] genhd: add a new attribute in device
 structure

On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 17:16 +0900, Nao Nishijima wrote:
> Allow users to set the preferred name of device via sysfs interface.
> 
> (Exsample) sda -> foo
> # echo foo > /sys/block/sda/preferred_name
> 
> Suggested-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>

So, as I said previously, I think this needs to be in struct device not
struct gendisk.   It will be an easier infrastructure to use and it
easily generalises to our other naming problems (like net).

James


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