Re: [PATCH 15/25] dm: add uevent change event on resume

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Sep 15 2006 - 19:03:28 EST


On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:47:29PM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
>
> Device-mapper devices are not accessible until a 'resume' ioctl has been
> issued. For userspace to find out when this happens we need to generate an
> uevent for udev to take appropriate action.
>
> As discussed at OLS we should send 'change' events for 'resume'.
> We can think of no useful purpose served by also having 'suspend' events.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>

I was at that meeting for a bit (had to chase after my son...) so feel
free to add:
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

from me to this patch.

thanks,

greg k-h
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