From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
snitzer@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 0/9] Generate uevents for all DM events
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 18:43:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161005174358.GD28416@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0afb2645-59e5-f9a6-ca1f-29aaadf59400@redhat.com>
On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 10:06:41AM -0700, Andy Grover wrote:
> My project *would* like this added sooner, so I'll work on a revised
> patchset that uses netlink instead of uevents, and will also work on a
> revision to uevents.txt that talks about KOBJ_CHANGE and when it should
> and should not be used, as described by agk, to help out the next person.
netlink might still be overkill for this at this stage, if it's only
making one thread able to monitor multiple devices efficiently.
Let's find out your requirements and see if there's anything different from
the ones we've debated before.
Alasdair
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-05 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-03 19:22 [PATCH 0/9] Generate uevents for all DM events Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:22 ` [PATCH 1/9] dm: Do not export dm_send_uevents Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:22 ` [PATCH 2/9] dm: Move multipath-specific stuff out of dm-uevent.c Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:22 ` [PATCH 3/9] dm: Inline dm_build_path_uevent into dm_path_uevent Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:22 ` [PATCH 4/9] dm: Update dm-uevent.txt Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:22 ` [PATCH 5/9] dm: Rename dm_build_uevent to dm_uevent_build Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:22 ` [PATCH 6/9] dm: Rename dm_event_add to dm_event_queue Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:22 ` [PATCH 7/9] dm: Implement dm_uevent_add() Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:22 ` [PATCH 8/9] dm: Generate uevents for thin targets Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:23 ` [PATCH 9/9] dm: Generate uevents for other targets Andy Grover
2016-10-03 19:29 ` [PATCH 0/9] Generate uevents for all DM events Mike Snitzer
2016-10-04 7:20 ` Greg KH
2016-10-04 23:39 ` Andy Grover
2016-10-05 0:40 ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2016-10-05 6:26 ` Hannes Reinecke
2016-10-05 6:51 ` Greg KH
2016-10-05 17:06 ` Andy Grover
2016-10-05 17:43 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2016-10-05 22:30 ` Andy Grover
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