Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:38:48 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: API break, sysfs "capability" file |
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 06:26:57PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Hmm, so you want to generically allow toggling the flag from > userspace? I mean that'd be fine with me, but it would feel a bit > weird if you let's say have a partition block device, where you'd > toggle this, and then you have two levels of part scanning, and then > you toggle it on one of the part block devices there and so on, and so > on. Could that work at all with the major/minor allocation stuff?
Oh, no - I do not want to allow toggling it on the device for partitions. That would always fail.
> But let's say you add such a user-controlled thing, if you'd add that > I figure you really also need a way to query the current state, right? > which is basically what I originally was looking for...
Yes.
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