From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 7/8] dm: delay registering the gendisk
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:05:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210810150512.GA102700@agk-cloud1.hosts.prod.upshift.rdu2.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210810131227.ofgfi62agal64nqd@alatyr-rpi.brq.redhat.com>
On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 03:12:27PM +0200, Peter Rajnoha wrote:
> (I'm not counting the very corner use case of
> 'dmsetup --addnodeoncreate --verifyudev' which now ends up with a dev node
> in /dev that logically returns -ENODEV when accessed instead of zero-sized
> device as it was before.)
Yes. That facility was provided to assist people having to work with
old or incorrect code or misconfigured systems and breaking it in this
way shouldn't be a concern. (We could possibly still patch it up to
continue to do the best thing after the patchset goes in.)
Alasdair
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-10 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-04 9:41 [dm-devel] use regular gendisk registration in device mapper v2 Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04 9:41 ` [dm-devel] [PATCH 1/8] block: make the block holder code optional Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04 9:41 ` [dm-devel] [PATCH 2/8] block: remove the extra kobject reference in bd_link_disk_holder Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04 9:41 ` [dm-devel] [PATCH 3/8] block: look up holders by bdev Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04 9:41 ` [dm-devel] [PATCH 4/8] block: support delayed holder registration Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <CGME20210810213058eucas1p109323e3c3ecaa76d37d8cf63b6d8ecfd@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2021-08-10 21:30 ` Marek Szyprowski
2021-08-14 21:13 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-08-15 7:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-15 14:27 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-08-16 7:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-16 14:17 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-08-20 15:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-21 3:17 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-08-18 2:51 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-08-04 9:41 ` [dm-devel] [PATCH 5/8] dm: cleanup cleanup_mapped_device Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04 9:41 ` [dm-devel] [PATCH 6/8] dm: move setting md->type into dm_setup_md_queue Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-04 9:41 ` [dm-devel] [PATCH 7/8] dm: delay registering the gendisk Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-09 23:31 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2021-08-10 0:17 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2021-08-10 13:12 ` Peter Rajnoha
2021-08-10 15:05 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2022-07-07 3:29 ` Yu Kuai
2022-07-07 5:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-07 7:20 ` Yu Kuai
2022-07-15 3:24 ` Yu Kuai
2022-08-01 1:04 ` Yu Kuai
2021-08-04 9:41 ` [dm-devel] [PATCH 8/8] block: remove support for delayed queue registrations Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-09 17:51 ` [dm-devel] use regular gendisk registration in device mapper v2 Jens Axboe
2021-08-10 0:36 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2021-08-10 14:41 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2021-08-19 15:58 ` [dm-devel] holders not working properly, regression [was: Re: use regular gendisk registration in device mapper v2] Mike Snitzer
2021-08-19 18:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-08-19 22:08 ` Mike Snitzer
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-07-25 5:54 [dm-devel] use regular gendisk registration in device mapper Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-25 5:54 ` [dm-devel] [PATCH 7/8] dm: delay registering the gendisk Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-29 16:36 ` Mike Snitzer
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