Re: EVMS Submission for 2.5

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:51:39AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Kevin Corry wrote:
> 
> > > I might agree with something along the lines of
> > > 	* when evms is initialized, it's notified of all existing gendisks
> > > 	* whenever disk is added after evms initialization, we notify evms
> > > 	* whenever disk is removed, we notify evms
> > 
> > This sounds like it would be exactly what EVMS needs. The only thing we would 
> > want to add to this list is: "*whenever a disk is modified, notify evms". For 
> > example, with removable media drives (such as Zip and Jaz), when a cartidge 
> > is changed, the capacity of the drive might change, and we would like to be 
> > notified of that event.
> 
> Umm...  OK.  There were some plans to add a notifier chain for such events
> and EVMS looks like a possible user of that beast.  However, it's not
> obvious whether we need to do any of that in the kernel - we definitely
> can have userland up and running before _any_ block devices are initialized,
> so it might be a work for userland helper.

/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.

thanks,

greg k-h