linux-kernel - Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] dm: verity: Add support for emitting uevents on dm-verity errors.

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Date:	Thu, 20 Jun 2013 20:00:12 -0700
From:	Geremy Condra <gcondra@...gle.com>
To:	Geremy Condra <gcondra@...gle.com>, dm-devel@...hat.com,
	wad@...omium.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, agk@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] dm: verity: Add support for emitting uevents
 on dm-verity errors.

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 06:12:07PM -0700, Geremy Condra wrote:
>> Assuming nobody currently using DM_UEVENT minds it doesn't cause any
>> problems for me. Any current users object?
>
> DM_UEVENT toggles uevents on or off across the whole of device-mapper.
>
> If there is no particular need for verity *not* to generate uevents
> while other parts of device-mapper *are* generating them, then we can
> make do with just the one Kconfig parameter.  (Userspace is still free
> to ignore particular events.)
>
> So let's drop the second config parameter.

SGTM, next patch coming up- thanks for taking the time to review!

Geremy Condra

>
> Alasdair
>
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