Re: [PATCH] loop: add some basic read-only sysfs attributes

[Kay Sievers]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 15:33, Milan Broz <mbroz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Create /sys/block/loopX/loop directory and provide these attributes:
> Â- backing_file
> Â- autoclear
> Â- offset
> Â- 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.

Kay
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