Re: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer

Kay Sievers
2004-09-15T21:40:00Z

On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 17:26 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 14:21 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > Doh! You're right. Here's Kay's patch ported to the new interface, and
> > adding a umount event type. I've applied it to my trees.
>
> I am actually thinking that Kay's approach is less than ideal, since it
> does not catch all mounts and unmounts.

I was only looking from the sysfs side and want the event for a block
device. A generic mount notification was not on the plan that time and
will also not fit in the current kobject picture. We may name it "claim"
and "release" if you like that more.

Kay