On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:01:49 -0500 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 04:13 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > > > If a scsi_device supports async notification for media change, then > > > let user space know this capability exists by creating a new sysfs > > > entry "media_change_notify", which will be 1 if it is supported, and > > > 0 if not supported. Create a routine which allows scsi devices to > > > send a uevent when media change events occur. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > if James is happy with this patch, I'm happy with patch #2 and #3 > > Actually, we just got a second potential consumer ... although I'll > reprod to have the reporter send it to the list. It's a device that > needs notice of report luns data changing. The proposed mechanism looks > a bit narrow now (too tied to media change). I'll see if I can propose > a more generic update. > > James > Too narrow because it's tied to scsi_device? Obviously it'd be easy to expand the scsi_device_event enum to include LUNS_DATA_CHANGE or something, and even the scsi_device_event_info struct can easily be expanded if you need more info attached to the event. Let me know if there's something specific I can help with. Kristen - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
