Re: [patch 114/123] dm ioctl: only issue uevent on resume if statechanged

From: Alasdair G Kergon
Date: Mon Mar 22 2010 - 14:54:29 EST


On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 02:43:17PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> The following upstream dm-ioctl patch also needs to go to stable now

Ack.

This is for the benefit of systems that have switched over to using udev
rules to manage dm devices (instead of dm/lvm2 code). The userspace
code that issued the ioctl needs to be told whether or not a uevent was
issued so that it knows whether or not there is udev processing to wait
for.

Alasdair

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