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| author | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2011-11-10 09:03:55 +0100 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2011-11-10 09:03:55 +0100 |
| commit | d0985394e7fee6b25a7cc8335d45bc1c1a8ab2d3 (patch) | |
| tree | 44f19c0500580fd0c3ea39f355c9636bec59d677 /include/linux | |
| parent | 1ea6b8f48918282bdca0b32a34095504ee65bab5 (diff) | |
block: Revert "[SCSI] genhd: add a new attribute "alias" in gendisk"
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.
It is much worse than netif renames because it doesn't rename the
actual device but just adds conveninence name which isn't used
universally or enforced. Everything internal including device lookup
and sysfs still uses the internal name and nothing prevents two
devices from using conflicting alias - ie. sda can have sdb as its
alias.
This has been nacked by people working on device driver core, block
layer and kernel-userland interface and shouldn't have been
upstreamed. Revert it.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1155104
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/68632
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/69776
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Nao Nishijima <nao.nishijima.xt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/genhd.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/genhd.h b/include/linux/genhd.h index 9de31bc98c8..6d18f3531f1 100644 --- a/include/linux/genhd.h +++ b/include/linux/genhd.h @@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ #define dev_to_part(device) container_of((device), struct hd_struct, __dev) #define disk_to_dev(disk) (&(disk)->part0.__dev) #define part_to_dev(part) (&((part)->__dev)) -#define alias_name(disk) ((disk)->alias ? (disk)->alias : \ - (disk)->disk_name) extern struct device_type part_type; extern struct kobject *block_depr; @@ -60,7 +58,6 @@ enum { #define DISK_MAX_PARTS 256 #define DISK_NAME_LEN 32 -#define ALIAS_LEN 256 #include <linux/major.h> #include <linux/device.h> @@ -166,7 +163,6 @@ struct gendisk { * disks that can't be partitioned. */ char disk_name[DISK_NAME_LEN]; /* name of major driver */ - char *alias; /* alias name of disk */ char *(*devnode)(struct gendisk *gd, mode_t *mode); unsigned int events; /* supported events */ |