On 4/9/24 8:15 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 10:19:09AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> All I am looking for is a very simple test that returns me a boolean: >> is there kernel-level partition scanning enabled on this device or >> not. > > And we can add a trivial sysfs attribute for that. And I think we should. I don't know what was being smoked adding a sysfs interface that exposed internal flag values - and honestly what was being smoked to rely on that, but I think it's fair to say that the majority of the fuckup here is on the kernel side. > At this point we're just better off with a clean new interface. > And you can use the old hack for < 5.15 if you care strongly enough > or just talk distros into backporting it to make their lives easier. We should arguably just stable mark the patch adding the above simple interface. -- Jens Axboe
