Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> Send an uevent to user space to indicate that a media change event has
> occurred.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Index: 2.6-git/block/genhd.c
> ===================================================================
> --- 2.6-git.orig/block/genhd.c
> +++ 2.6-git/block/genhd.c
> @@ -643,6 +643,25 @@ struct seq_operations diskstats_op = {
> .show = diskstats_show
> };
>
> +static void media_change_notify_thread(struct work_struct *work)
> +{
> + struct gendisk *gd = container_of(work, struct gendisk, async_notify);
> + char event[] = "MEDIA_CHANGE=1";
> + char *envp[] = { event, NULL };
> +
> + /*
> + * set enviroment vars to indicate which event this is for
> + * so that user space will know to go check the media status.
> + */
> + kobject_uevent_env(&gd->kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE, envp);
> +}
> +
> +void genhd_media_change_notify(struct gendisk *disk)
> +{
> + schedule_work(&disk->async_notify);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(genhd_media_change_notify);
genhd might go away while async_notify work is in-flight. You'll need
to either grab a reference or wait for the work to finish in release
routine.
--
tejun
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