From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from c-83-233-174-181.cust.bredband2.com ([83.233.174.181]:44796 "EHLO pi.fatal.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752806AbbEOJfp (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2015 05:35:45 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 11:35:38 +0200 From: Andreas Henriksson To: Ron , 785116@bugs.debian.org Cc: Karel Zak , util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug#785116: util-linux: blkid -s returns too much information Message-ID: <20150515093538.GC12181@fatal.se> References: <20150512132634.1127.8640.reportbug@hex.shelbyville.oz> <20150513063604.GA466@fatal.se> <20150513103706.GE4834@ws.net.home> <20150513212052.GM27477@hex.shelbyville.oz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20150513212052.GM27477@hex.shelbyville.oz> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello! On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 06:50:52AM +0930, Ron wrote: [...] > Yeah, I completely sympathise with the pain in that line of thinking. > I guess the question for me would be is there really any use case > where someone might actually be relying on this (mis)behaviour? > One where they aren't already explicitly passing -s DEVNAME as one > of the tags they want exported (which really is what you should be > doing if that's what you want). [...] I'm willing to bet that noone explicitly uses "-s DEVNAME" already, as that simply does not work (because DEVNAME is not a tag). Hacking the code to make DEVNAME a tag looked trivial to me but changing things (again) will be risk ending up in a neverending back-and-forth dance between people wanting/relying on different behaviours. Thats why I wanted to ask for input from upstream as soon as possible in this matter, even before producing the patch. Regards, Andreas Henriksson