Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Oct 2002 12:21:13 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: EVMS Submission for 2.5 |
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On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Greg KH wrote:
> > Umm... OK. There were some plans to add a notifier chain for such events > > and EVMS looks like a possible user of that beast. However, it's not > > obvious whether we need to do any of that in the kernel - we definitely > > can have userland up and running before _any_ block devices are initialized, > > so it might be a work for userland helper. > > /sbin/hotplug already gets called for _every_ device that is added to > the system as of 2.5.40, so you should probably use that as your > userspace notifier event. If there's anything that the /sbin/hotplug > call misses, that you need for evms, please let me know.
We need it a) early enough b) called for things like umem, etc. - random drivers built into the tree and exporting several block devices.
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