Revert mount/umount uevent removal

This change reverts the 033b96fd30db52a710d97b06f87d16fc59fee0f1 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index b730d765b525..be5ae600f533 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -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>