From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BB52C65BAE for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:00:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE462086D for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:00:58 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 0EE462086D Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=canonical.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-block-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726437AbeLMVA5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2018 16:00:57 -0500 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:45273 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726435AbeLMVA5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2018 16:00:57 -0500 Received: from 201-68-129-100.dsl.telesp.net.br ([201.68.129.100] helo=calabresa) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1gXY6H-0008DV-Hv; Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:00:54 +0000 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 19:00:43 -0200 From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Hannes Reinecke , linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] block: expose devt for GENHD_FL_HIDDEN disks Message-ID: <20181213210042.GC5321@calabresa> References: <20181206164812.30925-1-cascardo@canonical.com> <20181206164812.30925-5-cascardo@canonical.com> <20181213143218.GA8723@lst.de> <20181213152532.GA5321@calabresa> <20181213202016.GA15992@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181213202016.GA15992@lst.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-block-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 09:20:16PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 01:25:33PM -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > > > And I've checked back - lsblk actually works just fine at the moment. > > > But it turns out once we create the slave links it stops working, > > > which is a really good argument against the first two patches, which > > > would otherwise seem nice.. > > > > Which is why I have sent the "paths/" patchset in the first place. Because I > > did some homework and read the previous discussion about this, and how lsblk > > failure to behave with slave links led to the revert of the slaves/holders > > patch by Dr. Hannes. > > Sorry, I did not actually notice that Hannes patch manually created > the same slaves/holders link we otherwise create using the block layer > APIs. Had I realized those actually were the same that had saved > me some work. > > So I guess the v2 paths/ link patch from you is the least of all evils. > Hannes, can you look over that one? No hard feelings. Sorry we had to go through all these messages to make that clear. This should be Message-Id: <20181101232955.19329-1-cascardo@canonical.com> and Hannes was on Cc as well. Regards. Cascardo. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cascardo@canonical.com (Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 19:00:43 -0200 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] block: expose devt for GENHD_FL_HIDDEN disks In-Reply-To: <20181213202016.GA15992@lst.de> References: <20181206164812.30925-1-cascardo@canonical.com> <20181206164812.30925-5-cascardo@canonical.com> <20181213143218.GA8723@lst.de> <20181213152532.GA5321@calabresa> <20181213202016.GA15992@lst.de> Message-ID: <20181213210042.GC5321@calabresa> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018@09:20:16PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018@01:25:33PM -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > > > And I've checked back - lsblk actually works just fine at the moment. > > > But it turns out once we create the slave links it stops working, > > > which is a really good argument against the first two patches, which > > > would otherwise seem nice.. > > > > Which is why I have sent the "paths/" patchset in the first place. Because I > > did some homework and read the previous discussion about this, and how lsblk > > failure to behave with slave links led to the revert of the slaves/holders > > patch by Dr. Hannes. > > Sorry, I did not actually notice that Hannes patch manually created > the same slaves/holders link we otherwise create using the block layer > APIs. Had I realized those actually were the same that had saved > me some work. > > So I guess the v2 paths/ link patch from you is the least of all evils. > Hannes, can you look over that one? No hard feelings. Sorry we had to go through all these messages to make that clear. This should be Message-Id: <20181101232955.19329-1-cascardo at canonical.com> and Hannes was on Cc as well. Regards. Cascardo.