From fa675765afed59bb89adba3369094ebd428b930b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:39:02 -0800 Subject: 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 --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') 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 + +--------------------------- + +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 -- cgit v1.2.3