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From: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@cox.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Hotplug events for block devices?
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:09:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-104751085302189@msgid-missing> (raw)

In looking at the boot process of a 2.5.64 kernel (with DEBUG defined in 
drivers/base/hotplug.c), I can see hotplug events for each of my ATA disks as 
they are added to the "ide" bus in sysfs. So far so good.

However, I'd like to be able to receive hotplug events for _all_ block devices, 
regardless of connection type or anything else. In fact, I'd like to receive 
hotplug events for all block device _minors_ as well, so when the kernel scans 
(or receives) partition information that would generate events as well. The 
event would only have to indicate add/remove, "block", and the DEVPATH to the 
device node in sysfs.

Currently, the "whole disk" block devices appear in /sys/block, but the 
partitions don't seem to appear anywhere in sysfs. However, it appears that the 
"block" directory is a sysfs "subsystem", not a class, so no hotplug events are 
generated when the block subsystem adds/removes devices.

How should this be accomplished? Should the "block" subsystem really be a sysfs 
"class"?



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             reply	other threads:[~2003-03-12 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-12 23:09 Kevin P. Fleming [this message]
2003-03-12 23:36 ` Hotplug events for block devices? Greg KH
2003-03-13  0:08 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-03-13  0:10 ` Greg KH

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