[dm-devel] [PATCH] libmultipath/discovery: read sysfs files uncached

Hannes Reinecke hare at suse.de
Thu Apr 4 10:20:46 UTC 2013


On 04/04/2013 12:00 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de> wrote:
>>>> Unfortunately, libudev doesn't provide an uncached variant. This
>>>> is why we have to reimplement the functionality and some libudev
>>>> internal functions here.
> 
> Hannes,
> 
> didn't you intend to use udev_device_set_sysattr_value(..., attribute,
> NULL); to clear the cached value?
> 

Yes, it should. Question remains, though, what happens to the actual
sysfs attribute.
Does it remain unchained? Will it be set to '0'?

Cheers,

Hannes
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