linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: drop "sending ioctl to a partition" message

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Message-ID: <019433fb-9a89-4ef9-6d76-a817a2f52a0f@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 3 Oct 2017 18:22:23 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: drop "sending ioctl to a partition" message

On 21/09/2017 16:49, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> After the first few months, the message has not led to many bug reports.
> It's been almost five years now, and in practice the main source of
> it seems to be MTIOCGET that someone is using to detect tape devices.
> While we could whitelist it just like CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY, this patch
> just removes the message altogether.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>

Ping (with fixed email address for Jens)...

Paolo