Re: [PATCH] locks: export device name

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:06:07 +0100
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxx>
> 
> The lslk(8) program has not been maintained for over a decade and has recently been rewritten as lslocks(8).
> It will be available for the next 2.22 release, in a couple of months. This is a good opportunity to delete
> that nasty WE_CAN_BREAK_LSLK_NOW and start exporting the device name instead of the maj:min numbers.
> 
> For backward compatibility the new version can be in charge of checking older kernel versions and parsing the old
> output if necessary.
> 
> ...
>
> --- a/fs/locks.c
> +++ b/fs/locks.c
> @@ -2199,15 +2199,8 @@ static void lock_get_status(struct seq_file *f, struct file_lock *fl,
>  			       : (fl->fl_type & F_WRLCK) ? "WRITE" : "READ ");
>  	}
>  	if (inode) {
> -#ifdef WE_CAN_BREAK_LSLK_NOW
>  		seq_printf(f, "%d %s:%ld ", fl_pid,
>  				inode->i_sb->s_id, inode->i_ino);
> -#else
> -		/* userspace relies on this representation of dev_t ;-( */
> -		seq_printf(f, "%d %02x:%02x:%ld ", fl_pid,
> -				MAJOR(inode->i_sb->s_dev),
> -				MINOR(inode->i_sb->s_dev), inode->i_ino);
> -#endif
>  	} else {
>  		seq_printf(f, "%d <none>:0 ", fl_pid);
>  	}

I don't get it.  This is an immediate and non-back-compatible change to
the format of /proc/locks.  The only way this can avoid breaking things
is if there are no programs or scripts in use by anyone which use
this field.  What am I missing here?

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