On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:22:42PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > 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.. Ah, right - there was another uevent mess in fs/super.c. Sorry, got them confused... and that FPOS _is_ back. gregkh, may I ask why had bdev_uevent() been resurrected? - : 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