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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2006-02-22 12:39:02 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2006-02-22 12:39:02 -0500
commitfa675765afed59bb89adba3369094ebd428b930b (patch)
tree777a8c1bb48ef7de39073104f974209f4a462b6f /Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
parentb00dc3ad74fdb676552d46ee573b88e927240d0c (diff)
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>
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@@ -171,3 +171,12 @@ Why: The ISA interface is faster and should be always available. The I2C
171 probing is also known to cause trouble in at least one case (see 171 probing is also known to cause trouble in at least one case (see
172 bug #5889.) 172 bug #5889.)
173Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> 173Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
174
175---------------------------
176
177What: mount/umount uevents
178When: February 2007
179Why: These events are not correct, and do not properly let userspace know
180 when a file system has been mounted or unmounted. Userspace should
181 poll the /proc/mounts file instead to detect this properly.
182Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>