On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:28:16PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > 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? One user, running an old version of HAL, on a distro that had an updated version available (Gentoo), refused to upgrade it and was upset that when they plugged a usb-storage device in, it did not show up as an icon on the desktop. Andrew pointed out that we broke the "don't break the userspace API" kernel rule, so I put the patch back, and noted when it would finally be removed. I would gladly remove it again if everyone can agree that they will not get upset at me again when someone running obsolete/broken userspace programs complains... thanks, greg k-h - : 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
