On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:39:52PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hm, I thought we were frowning apon running binaries from udev rules > > these days, especially ones that might have big consequences (like > > resizing a disk image) like this. > > > > Kay, am I right? > > We removed most of them from the default setups, yes. But there is > nothing wrong if people want to ship that in some package or as custom > rules. > > It looks fine to me, we would just not add such things to the default > set of of rules these days. > > > We already emit KOBJECT_CHANGE events when block devices change, from > > within the block core code. Why is the patch below needed instead of > > using these events that are already generated? How are virtio block > > devices special? > > I think we only do that for dm and md and a couple of special cases > like loop and read-only settings. What about when we repartition a block device? I've seen the events happen then. Anyway, if you are ok with this, no objection from my side then Rusty. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
