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

From: Kay Sievers
Date: Thu Nov 02 2006 - 07:14:20 EST


On 10/31/06, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

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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