Re: [PATCH] dm: verity: Add support for emitting uevents on dm-verity errors.

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On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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?

Assuming nobody currently using DM_UEVENT minds it doesn't cause any problems for me. Any current users object?

Geremy Condra
 

Alasdair


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