Reminder: [PATCH v2 0/5] block: skip media change event handling if unsupported

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On Tue, 2019-02-05 at 12:37 +0100, Martin Wilck wrote:
> [...]
> 
> This series implements a slightly different approach to event
> handling and
> uevent suppression. The drivers are changed to set the events field
> again.
> Whether or not uevents should be generated is controlled by a
> separate flag
> bit, which is only set by the drivers that are known to generate
> proper
> uevents (sd and sr). Once this is done, devices that don't support
> any
> media change events can be clearly identified, and the whole events
> checking code path can be skipped. This simplifies handling of
> non-removable SCSI disks.
> 
> I have tested this with removable and non-removable SCSI disks, SCSI
> cdrom,
> and ide-cd.
> 
> This patch set targets the same problem as Hannes' late submission
> "sd:
> skip non-removable devices in sd_check_events()".

Gentle review reminder.

Regards
Martin

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Dr. Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx>, Tel. +49 (0)911 74053 2107
SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton
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