The patch titled md: send online/offline uevents when an md array starts/stops. has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is md-send-online-offline-uevents-when-an-md-array-starts-stops.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: md: send online/offline uevents when an md array starts/stops. From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> This allows udev to do something intelligent when an array becomes available. Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/md/md.c~md-send-online-offline-uevents-when-an-md-array-starts-stops drivers/md/md.c --- a/drivers/md/md.c~md-send-online-offline-uevents-when-an-md-array-starts-stops +++ a/drivers/md/md.c @@ -3200,6 +3200,7 @@ static int do_md_run(mddev_t * mddev) mddev->changed = 1; md_new_event(mddev); + kobject_uevent(&mddev->gendisk->kobj, KOBJ_ONLINE); return 0; } @@ -3313,6 +3314,7 @@ static int do_md_stop(mddev_t * mddev, i module_put(mddev->pers->owner); mddev->pers = NULL; + kobject_uevent(&mddev->gendisk->kobj, KOBJ_OFFLINE); if (mddev->ro) mddev->ro = 0; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from neilb@xxxxxxx are md-check-bio-address-after-mapping-through-partitions.patch md-send-online-offline-uevents-when-an-md-array-starts-stops.patch sunrpc-add-missing-spin_unlock.patch lockdep-annotate-nfs-nfsd-in-kernel-sockets.patch lockdep-annotate-nfs-nfsd-in-kernel-sockets-tidy.patch remove-lock_key-approach-to-managing-nested-bd_mutex-locks.patch simplify-some-aspects-of-bd_mutex-nesting.patch use-mutex_lock_nested-for-bd_mutex-to-avoid-lockdep-warning.patch avoid-lockdep-warning-in-md.patch lockdep-annotate-nfsd4-recover-code.patch md-conditionalize-some-code.patch md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html