On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 09:59:41AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote: > Documentation/kobject.txt: > > Use the KOBJ_ADD action for when the kobject is first added to the kernel. > > This should be done only after any attributes or children of the kobject > > have been initialized properly, as userspace will instantly start to look > > for them when this call happens. > > Unfortunately it seems impossible to fix this generally without touching the > offending callers. The approach I'm proposing here is adding a flag to > suppress uevent in add_disk(), which is patch 1, then in later patches, > convert > any caller to only trigger the uevent when attributes are added.
We (or rather Dan) is touching most add_disk callers anyway for the driverfs_dev removal. Let's just pass the array of attributes to a disk_add variant and solve the issue for real. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
