Balbir, >> We already emit an SDEV_EVT_CAPACITY_CHANGE_REPORTED event if device >> capacity changes. However, this event does not automatically cause >> revalidation. > > The proposed idea is to not reinforce revalidation, unless explictly > specified (in the thread before Bob Liu had suggestions). The goal is > to notify user space of changes via RESIZE. SCSI sd can opt out of > this IOW, I can remove this if you feel > SDEV_EVT_CAPACITY_CHANGE_REPORTED is sufficient for current use cases. I have no particular objection to the code change. I was just observing that in the context of sd.c, RESIZE=1 is more of a "your request to resize was successful" notification due to the requirement of an explicit userland action in case a device reports a capacity change. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
