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    SubjectRe: EVMS Submission for 2.5


    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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