On 03/12/2014 11:55 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 11:50:13AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >> >From the device-mapper side we have these patches which are not >> included upstream: > > Another one on the dm side that seems useful is: > > dm-emulate-blkrrpart-ioctl: > Partitions on device-mapper devices are managed by kpartx (if at > all). So if we were just to send out a 'change' event if someone > called BLKRRPART on these devices, kpartx will be triggered via udev > and can manage the partitions accordingly. > Which I've omitted for a reason; looks like these kind of things it handled in userspace nowadays. It will also cause 'parted' to emit 'change' events when you just display a device. Which is _not_ want we want. So this patch will be pulled, even from SUSE.
Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage h...@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
