linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: sr: Fix some cdroms automatically ejected when booting into the system

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Date:   Wed, 27 Apr 2022 22:51:02 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     jinxiaobo <jinxiaobo@...ontech.com>
Cc:     jejb@...ux.ibm.com, martin.petersen@...cle.com,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: sr: Fix some cdroms automatically ejected when
 booting into the system


Hi jinxiaobo!

> sr_get_events() has been called before udev starts when SCSI CDROM is
> built-in and AHCI SATA is bulit-in,so sr events propagated to user
> space are not handled.  if both is loadable, udev will handle sr
> events, some cdroms may eject.  We need call sr_get_events() once
> before device_add_disk() to keep the same result, whether both are
> built-in or loadable.

I am not sure how calling sr_get_events() and throwing away the result
ensures that events get propagated to udev. Isn't this just changing
timing slightly?

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering