From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] scsi: expose AN support to user space Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:01:49 -0500 Message-ID: <1187186509.3327.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070808190613.616085010@localhost.localdomain> <20070808120822.9cf187bb.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> <46C2B59A.6070200@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <46C2B59A.6070200@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 04:13 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > > If a scsi_device supports async notification for media change, then > > let user space know this capability exists by creating a new sysfs > > entry "media_change_notify", which will be 1 if it is supported, and > > 0 if not supported. Create a routine which allows scsi devices to > > send a uevent when media change events occur. > > > > Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi > > if James is happy with this patch, I'm happy with patch #2 and #3 Actually, we just got a second potential consumer ... although I'll reprod to have the reporter send it to the list. It's a device that needs notice of report luns data changing. The proposed mechanism looks a bit narrow now (too tied to media change). I'll see if I can propose a more generic update. James