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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Geremy Condra <gcondra@google.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com, wad@chromium.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, agk@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] dm: verity: Add support for emitting uevents on dm-verity errors.
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 01:59:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130621005905.GI23042@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371763260-9933-1-git-send-email-gcondra@google.com>

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 02:21:00PM -0700, Geremy Condra wrote:
> With this change and config option, dm-verity errors
> will cause uevents to be sent to userspace, notifying
> it that an error has occurred and potentially
> triggering recovery actions.
 
> +config DM_VERITY_ERROR_NOTIFY
> +	tristate "Notify userspace of verity errors through uevents"
> +	depends on DM_VERITY && DM_UEVENT
> +	---help---
> +	  This option instructs dm-verity to send uevents on error.
> +

Would it cause any problems if we had this feature enabled all the time,
controlled only by DM_UEVENT?

In other words, if we delete DM_VERITY_ERROR_NOTIFY from the upstream patch?

Alasdair


  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-21  0:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-20 21:21 [PATCH] dm: verity: Add support for emitting uevents on dm-verity errors Geremy Condra
2013-06-21  0:59 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
     [not found]   ` <CAEQjtanyk2mw2LHMruU+4ujj4KsTtgyfh=3ABk+3g77Bn-6W3g@mail.gmail.com>
2013-06-21  1:30     ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2013-06-21  3:00       ` Geremy Condra

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