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DateThu, 29 Jul 2010 16:35:15 +0200
FromMilan Broz <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] loop: add some basic read-only sysfs attributes
On 07/29/2010 04:22 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> First 8 loop devices are registered always (without backing file),
>> so you have wait for change event initiated from fd set ioctl anyway...
>> (backing file attribute is empty in that case)
>
> Ah, so we are sure, we always get a 'change' event, and before that,
> none of these values are ever useful to read? I mean, there will not
> be attributes that are interesting during an 'add' event?

I think it was already that way for all loop block devices...

See loop block devices registered during module init
(up to max_loop - which is 8 by default) and later configured by losetup.

Milan


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