On Fri, 12 May 2006, Al Viro wrote: > > Secondary question: who had resurrected that crap? I distinctly remember > killing it off... If you did, I don't think it ever got into the kernel. It was added by Kay Sievers on Nov 3, 2004, according to the old history (back then it was in drivers/block/genhd.c, and the function was called "block_hotplug()", but apart from renaming the function and moving the file, it's recognizably the same. Of course, you may have killed off an even earlier incarnation.. Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html