linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ide: unexport DISK_EVENT_MEDIA

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Date:	Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:14:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tj@...nel.org
Cc:	jaxboe@...ionio.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, hch@....de,
	neilb@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, kay.sievers@...y.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ide: unexport DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE for ide-gd
 and ide-cd

From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:09:25 +0200

> check_events() implementations in both ide-gd and ide-cd are
> inadequate for in-kernel event polling.  Both generate media change
> events continuously when certain conditions are met causing infinite
> event loop between the driver and userland event handler.
> 
> As disk event now supports suppression of unlisted events, simply
> de-listing DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE from disk->events resolves the
> problem.  Internal handling around media revalidation will behave the
> same while userland will fall back to userland event polling after
> detecting the device doesn't support disk events.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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