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

On 21/09/2017 16:49, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

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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@redhat.com>

Ping (with fixed email address for Jens)...

How about implementing the revised version I suggested?