On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 16:42 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Kay Sievers wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 13:12 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > >> When 285e9670 was updated for the scsi_evt_* interface, it should have > >> initialized the supported_events mask. > >> > >> And that is the fix -- initialize supported_events according to sr/sd's > >> needs, and revert this change (4d1566ed2100d074ccc654e5cf2e44cdea3a01d0) > >> as obviously broken. > > > > You mean adding a new flag? As every device will "support" these events. > > Does every device attached to every controller wish to fire these events? > > If so, then that wants new flag, yes. Yes, a new flag sounds good. Every device that detects a media change should send such event, so userspace can possibly update it's representation of the volume. That way, userspace can switch to a single generic event, regardless if the device is periodically polled, or supports AN. Thanks, Kay -- 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
