On 07/29/2010 03:47 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 15:33, Milan Broz <mbroz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Create /sys/block/loopX/loop directory and provide these attributes: >> - backing_file >> - autoclear >> - offset >> - sizelimit >> >> To be used in util-linux-ng (and possibly elsewhere like udev rules) >> where code need to get loop attributes from kernel (and not store >> duplicate info in userspace). > > Isn't it that the loop attributes are created _after_ the loopdev is > registered? That would make it hard to use these attributes from udev, > as the event is already running while they are created. First 8 loop devices are registered always (without backing file), so you have wait for change event initiated from fd set ioctl anyway... (backing file attribute is empty in that case) Milan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
