linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] dm ioctl: Allow userspace to provide expected diskseq

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Message-ID: <e42e8115-6f75-447e-9955-ca4ad43ed406@kadam.mountain>
Date:   Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:59:25 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
To:     Demi Marie Obenour <demi@...isiblethingslab.com>
Cc:     Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>, dm-devel@...hat.com,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] dm ioctl: Allow userspace to provide expected
 diskseq

On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 01:39:40PM -0400, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 01:23:40PM +0200, Markus Elfring wrote:
> > > This can be used to avoid race conditions in which a device is destroyed
> > > and recreated with the same major/minor, name, or UUID. …
> > 
> > Please add an imperative change suggestion.
> 
> Will fix in v3.

You don't have to listen to Markus.  Most of us can't see Markus's
emails because he's banned from the vger mailing lists.

Markus, stop bothering people about trivial nonsense.  I've said this
to you before, that if you spot a bug in a patch that's welcome feedback
but if you just have comments about grammar then no one wants that.

regards,
dan carpenter