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

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Oct 04 2017 - 02:25:32 EST


On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 06:22:23PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 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)...

How about implementing the revised version I suggested?