From 60935eb21d3c5bac79618000f38f92c249d153c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Milan Broz Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:12:30 +0100 Subject: dm ioctl: support cookies for udev Add support for passing a 32 bit "cookie" into the kernel with the DM_SUSPEND, DM_DEV_RENAME and DM_DEV_REMOVE ioctls. The (unsigned) value of this cookie is returned to userspace alongside the uevents issued by these ioctls in the variable DM_COOKIE. This means the userspace process issuing these ioctls can be notified by udev after udev has completed any actions triggered. To minimise the interface extension, we pass the cookie into the kernel in the event_nr field which is otherwise unused when calling these ioctls. Incrementing the version number allows userspace to determine in advance whether or not the kernel supports the cookie. If the kernel does support this but userspace does not, there should be no impact as the new variable will just get ignored. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/md/dm.h') diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.h b/drivers/md/dm.h index a31506d93e91..b5935c610c44 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm.h +++ b/drivers/md/dm.h @@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ void dm_stripe_exit(void); int dm_open_count(struct mapped_device *md); int dm_lock_for_deletion(struct mapped_device *md); -void dm_kobject_uevent(struct mapped_device *md); +void dm_kobject_uevent(struct mapped_device *md, enum kobject_action action, + unsigned cookie); int dm_kcopyd_init(void); void dm_kcopyd_exit(void); -- cgit v1.2.3