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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2006-02-22 09:39:02 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2006-02-22 09:39:02 -0800 |
| commit | fa675765afed59bb89adba3369094ebd428b930b (patch) | |
| tree | 777a8c1bb48ef7de39073104f974209f4a462b6f /Documentation | |
| parent | b00dc3ad74fdb676552d46ee573b88e927240d0c (diff) | |
| download | lwn-fa675765afed59bb89adba3369094ebd428b930b.tar.gz lwn-fa675765afed59bb89adba3369094ebd428b930b.zip | |
Revert mount/umount uevent removal
This change reverts the 033b96fd30db52a710d97b06f87d16fc59fee0f1 commit
from Kay Sievers that removed the mount/umount uevents from the kernel.
Some older versions of HAL still depend on these events to detect when a
new device has been mounted. These events are not correctly emitted,
and are broken by design, and so, should not be relied upon by any
future program. Instead, the /proc/mounts file should be polled to
properly detect this kind of event.
A feature-removal-schedule.txt entry has been added, noting when this
interface will be removed from the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index b730d765b525..be5ae600f533 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -171,3 +171,12 @@ Why: The ISA interface is faster and should be always available. The I2C probing is also known to cause trouble in at least one case (see bug #5889.) Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> + +--------------------------- + +What: mount/umount uevents +When: February 2007 +Why: These events are not correct, and do not properly let userspace know + when a file system has been mounted or unmounted. Userspace should + poll the /proc/mounts file instead to detect this properly. +Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> |