[patch] more frequent mtab checking

[David Zeuthen]

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 20:41, Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> All the changes to make the block device and udev stuff asynchronous
> broke the checks on /etc/mtab to add the block.fstype and
> block.mount_point properties.  This is because detection_done is called
> well before the udev info about the device nodes comes in.
> 

Ah, nice catch.

> The attached patch changes it to be called in the
> block_class_pre_process() function instead.  This means more frequent
> checks on /etc/mtab, but in reality I don't think it's a big deal.
> 

I agree. It looks good.

> It does call into question the usefulness of detection_done, though.
> 

Yeah, we should remove this; as I wrote earlier it was kind of broken of
me to make a distinction between probing and hotplug in the first place.

Cheers,
David

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