Re: [PATCH v2] block: Suppress uevent for hidden device when removed

[Martin Wilck]

On Thu, 2021-03-11 at 16:19 +0100, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> register_disk() suppress uevents for devices with the GENHD_FL_HIDDEN
> but enables uevents at the end again in order to announce disk after
> possible partitions are created.
> 
> When the device is removed the uevents are still on and user land
> sees
> 'remove' messages for devices which were never 'add'ed to the system.
> 
>   KERNEL[95481.571887] remove   /devices/virtual/nvme-
> fabrics/ctl/nvme5/nvme0c5n1 (block)
> 
> Let's suppress the uevents for GENHD_FL_HIDDEN by not enabling the
> uevents at all.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx>