Tejun Heo d0985394e7 block: Revert "[SCSI] genhd: add a new attribute "alias" in gendisk" ... This reverts commit a72c5e5eb7. The commit introduced alias for block devices which is intended to be used during logging although actual usage hasn't been committed yet. This approach adds very limited benefit (raw log might be easier to follow) which can be trivially implemented in userland but has a lot of problems. It is much worse than netif renames because it doesn't rename the actual device but just adds conveninence name which isn't used universally or enforced. Everything internal including device lookup and sysfs still uses the internal name and nothing prevents two devices from using conflicting alias - ie. sda can have sdb as its alias. This has been nacked by people working on device driver core, block layer and kernel-userland interface and shouldn't have been upstreamed. Revert it. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1155104 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/68632 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/69776 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Nao Nishijima <nao.nishijima.xt@hitachi.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>		2011-11-10 09:03:55 +01:00
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acpi	Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux	2011-11-07 10:13:52 -08:00
asm-generic	Merge Qualcom Hexagon architecture	2011-11-01 07:48:13 -07:00
crypto	crypto: Add a report function pointer to crypto_type	2011-10-21 14:24:03 +02:00
drm	Merge branch 'drm-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux	2011-11-07 10:01:56 -08:00
keys
linux	block: Revert "[SCSI] genhd: add a new attribute "alias" in gendisk"	2011-11-10 09:03:55 +01:00
math-emu
media	Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux	2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
misc
mtd
net	Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net	2011-11-07 10:55:33 -08:00
pcmcia
rdma	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband	2011-11-01 10:51:38 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi	Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6	2011-10-28 16:44:18 -07:00
sound	Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux	2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
target	Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending	2011-11-06 19:00:42 -08:00
trace	Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux	2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
video	Merge branch 'for-florian' of git://gitorious.org/linux-omap-dss2/linux into fbdev-next	2011-10-15 00:19:52 +00:00
xen	Merge branch 'upstream/xen-settime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen	2011-11-06 20:15:05 -08:00
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