Re: [PATCH 2/2] block: add a partscan sysfs attribute for disks

Christoph Hellwig
2024-05-03T08:16:24Z

On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 11:05:54AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 5/2/24 7:00 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > This attribute reports if partition scanning is enabled for a given disk.
>
> This should, at least, have a reference to Lennart's posting, and
> honestly a much better commit message as well. There's no reasoning
> given here at all.

I'm not sure I can come up with something much better, feel free to
throw in what you prefer.

> Maybe even a fixes tag and stable notation?

This is definitively not a Fixes as nothing it doesn't actually fix
any code. It provides a proper interfaces for what was an abuse
of leaking internal bits out.