Re: Hotplug events for block devices?

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:08:03AM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> >
> > Yes, that would be very good, and has been on my list of things to do
> > for quite some time.
> 
> How do you construct a sensible DEVPATH for iSCSI or nbd ?
> How do you notify about the loss or gain of an IO path as opposed
> to a whole device?

When those device types show up in sysfs, those kinds of problems will
have already been solved.

In other words, not our problem :)

thanks,

greg k-h


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