Re: [PATCH 1/1] block, bfq: delete "bfq" prefix from cgroup filenames

[Jens Axboe]

On 4/8/19 9:08 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 09:05:19AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> I did consider that, and that would be doable. But honestly, I'm having a
>> hard time seeing what issue we are attempting to fix by doing this.
> 
> Yeah, I guess the real fix would be to update the documentation and the
> expectations user-space has. Including eventual re-write of some udev rules or
> whatever is facing these files. But to me that sounds more like a systemd or
> even distro thing than a kernel thing.

I agree. Trying to force someones hand by renaming isn't going to fix
anything, but it will potentially cause issues.

-- 
Jens Axboe