Re: [PATCH v2 04/12] axonrom: Generate uevent after attribute available

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Fam Zheng <famz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It is documented that KOBJ_ADD should be generated after the object's
> attributes and children are ready.  We can achieve this with the new
> disk_gen_uevents interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c
> index 4efd69b..27e7175 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c
> @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ static int axon_ram_probe(struct platform_device *device)
>         set_capacity(bank->disk, bank->size >> AXON_RAM_SECTOR_SHIFT);
>         blk_queue_make_request(bank->disk->queue, axon_ram_make_request);
>         blk_queue_logical_block_size(bank->disk->queue, AXON_RAM_SECTOR_SIZE);
> -       add_disk(bank->disk, true);
> +       add_disk(bank->disk, false);
>
>         bank->irq_id = irq_of_parse_and_map(device->dev.of_node, 0);
>         if (bank->irq_id == NO_IRQ) {
> @@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ static int axon_ram_probe(struct platform_device *device)
>                 rc = -EFAULT;
>                 goto failed;
>         }
> +       disk_gen_uevents(bank->disk);

I assume you are doing this after:

   rc = device_create_file(&device->dev, &dev_attr_ecc);

...so that userspace gets notified of the new attribute, but this
attribute is on the parent device, not the disk itself.  Instead I
think this attribute should simply be registered before the call to
add_disk().  Then the KOBJ_ADD event for the disk comes after the
attribute is available.  It's still not a clean fit, because userspace
should not be expecting a child device uevent to signal new attributes
available on the parent.