Re: [Xen-devel] question on "xen-blkback: enlarge the array size of blkback name"

2015-05-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 10:28 +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > El 27/05/15 a les 9.47, Jan Beulich ha escrit: > > Hello, > > > > looking at this once again now that it's upstream, I still can't see what > > this is good for: The only use the produced string has is to be passed > > to kthread_run(), i

Re: [Xen-devel] question on "xen-blkback: enlarge the array size of blkback name"

2015-05-27 Thread Roger Pau Monné
El 27/05/15 a les 9.47, Jan Beulich ha escrit: > Hello, > > looking at this once again now that it's upstream, I still can't see what > this is good for: The only use the produced string has is to be passed > to kthread_run(), i.e. ultimately to be stored in a task's ->comm. That, > however, conti

[Xen-devel] question on "xen-blkback: enlarge the array size of blkback name"

2015-05-27 Thread Jan Beulich
Hello, looking at this once again now that it's upstream, I still can't see what this is good for: The only use the produced string has is to be passed to kthread_run(), i.e. ultimately to be stored in a task's ->comm. That, however, continues to be limited to 16 characters, so blkback.domid.xvd[a