linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 001 of 6] md: Send online/offline uevents when an md array starts/stops.

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Date:	Thu, 2 Nov 2006 13:13:56 +0100
From:	"Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	"Greg KH" <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>,
	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 001 of 6] md: Send online/offline uevents when an md array starts/stops.

On 10/31/06, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:00:46PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> >
> > This allows udev to do something intelligent when an
> > array becomes available.
> >
> > cc: gregkh@...e.de
> > Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
>
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

I don't agree with this, and asked several times to change this to
"change" events, like device-mapper is doing it to address the same
problem. Online/offline is not supported by udev/HAL and will not work
as expected. Please fix this.

Thanks,
Kay
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