Commit fa675765 authored by Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert mount/umount uevent removal

This change reverts the 033b96fd 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: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent b00dc3ad
......@@ -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>
......@@ -666,6 +666,16 @@ static int test_bdev_super(struct super_block *s, void *data)
return (void *)s->s_bdev == data;
}
static void bdev_uevent(struct block_device *bdev, enum kobject_action action)
{
if (bdev->bd_disk) {
if (bdev->bd_part)
kobject_uevent(&bdev->bd_part->kobj, action);
else
kobject_uevent(&bdev->bd_disk->kobj, action);
}
}
struct super_block *get_sb_bdev(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
int flags, const char *dev_name, void *data,
int (*fill_super)(struct super_block *, void *, int))
......@@ -707,8 +717,10 @@ struct super_block *get_sb_bdev(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
up_write(&s->s_umount);
deactivate_super(s);
s = ERR_PTR(error);
} else
} else {
s->s_flags |= MS_ACTIVE;
bdev_uevent(bdev, KOBJ_MOUNT);
}
}
return s;
......@@ -724,6 +736,7 @@ void kill_block_super(struct super_block *sb)
{
struct block_device *bdev = sb->s_bdev;
bdev_uevent(bdev, KOBJ_UMOUNT);
generic_shutdown_super(sb);
sync_blockdev(bdev);
close_bdev_excl(bdev);
......
......@@ -41,8 +41,10 @@ enum kobject_action {
KOBJ_ADD = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x01, /* exclusive to core */
KOBJ_REMOVE = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x02, /* exclusive to core */
KOBJ_CHANGE = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x03, /* device state change */
KOBJ_OFFLINE = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x04, /* device offline */
KOBJ_ONLINE = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x05, /* device online */
KOBJ_MOUNT = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x04, /* mount event for block devices (broken) */
KOBJ_UMOUNT = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x05, /* umount event for block devices (broken) */
KOBJ_OFFLINE = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x06, /* device offline */
KOBJ_ONLINE = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x07, /* device online */
};
struct kobject {
......
......@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ static char *action_to_string(enum kobject_action action)
return "remove";
case KOBJ_CHANGE:
return "change";
case KOBJ_MOUNT:
return "mount";
case KOBJ_UMOUNT:
return "umount";
case KOBJ_OFFLINE:
return "offline";
case KOBJ_ONLINE:
......
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