Re: [PATCH] block: drop "sending ioctl to a partition" message

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 21/09/2017 16:49, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> After the first few months, the message has not led to many bug reports.
> It's been almost five years now, and in practice the main source of
> it seems to be MTIOCGET that someone is using to detect tape devices.
> While we could whitelist it just like CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY, this patch
> just removes the message altogether.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>

Ping (with fixed email address for Jens)...

Paolo