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..
The changes in question are:
commit fa675765afed59bb89adba3369094ebd428b930b
tree 777a8c1bb48ef7de39073104f974209f4a462b6f
parent b00dc3ad74fdb676552d46ee573b88e927240d0c
author Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:39:02 -0800
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:39:02 -0800
Revert mount/umount uevent removal
This change reverts the 033b96fd30db52a710d97b06f87d16fc59fee0f1 commit
from Kay Sievers that removed the mount/umount uevents from the kernel.
Some older versions of HAL still depend on these events to detect when a
new device has been mounted. These events are not correctly emitted,
and are broken by design, and so, should not be relied upon by any
future program. Instead, the /proc/mounts file should be polled to
properly detect this kind of event.
A feature-removal-schedule.txt entry has been added, noting when this
interface will be removed from the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
commit 033b96fd30db52a710d97b06f87d16fc59fee0f1
tree 00fbccf2cf478307e213f298a221e330f3ba12ae
parent 0f76e5acf9dc788e664056dda1e461f0bec93948
author Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxx> 1131685795 +0100
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> 1136420287 -0800
[PATCH] remove mount/umount uevents from superblock handling
The names of these events have been confusing from the beginning
on, as they have been more like claim/release events. We needed these
events for noticing HAL if storage devices have been mounted.
Thanks to Al, we have the proper solution now and can poll()
/proc/mounts instead to get notfied about mount tree changes.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
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