Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] block: add a sequence number to disks

[Matteo Croce]

On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 3:56 PM Matteo Croce <mcroce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: Matteo Croce <mcroce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> With this series a monotonically increasing number is added to disks,
> precisely in the genhd struct, and it's exported in sysfs and uevent.
>
> This helps the userspace correlate events for devices that reuse the
> same device, like loop.
>
> The first patch is the core one, the 2..4 expose the information in
> different ways, the 5th increases the seqnum on media change and
> the last one increases the sequence number for loop devices upon
> attach, detach or reconfigure.
>
> If merged, this feature will immediately used by the userspace:
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/17469#issuecomment-762919781
>

Hi Christoph,

I just noticed that the series doesn't apply anymore. Before
refreshing it, I wish to know what are your opinion on this one, as
nobody expressed one on latest submission.

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