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From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv8 20/23] scsi: Add 'access_state' attribute
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 07:16:31 -0800
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To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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On 02/20/16 00:03, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Also when using your suggestion the 'access_state' attribute will only
> be created _after_ the 'ADD' uevent, making it impossible to use it from
> udev events.

Can you give an example in which it would be useful to read the ALUA 
state from a udev handler ? I'm not sure such an example exists.

> If you're absolutely against it we can drop the 'access_state' patches
> (ie patch 20-22) and have them folded into a separate patchset.

That sounds like a good idea to me.

Thanks,

Bart.