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    SubjectRe: EVMS Submission for 2.5
    On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:21:13PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
    > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Greg KH wrote:
    > > /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

    Your initramfs patches will enable this to happen :)

    > b) called for things like umem, etc. - random drivers built into
    > the tree and exporting several block devices.

    All devices that have a "struct device" (which should be about
    everything these days, if not, please let me know), cause a
    /sbin/hotplug event to happen. This event says what type of device was
    added or removed, and includes the location of the device in the
    driverfs tree so that userspace can then determine what it wants to do
    with this device.

    I'm working on adding a call to /sbin/hotplug when classes are
    registered with the kernel (like disk and other things that live in the
    class driverfs tree).

    Is this enough information to do what you need?

    thanks,

    greg k-h
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