Re: DiskDevice API v2.0

On 2003-04-05 at 08:20:14 [-0800], Ingo Weinhold wrote:
[BDeviceList/notification stuff]
> > > I believe, a `partition added' is more useful than a `device
> > > changed'
> > > event, even if the complete partition info isn't included in the
> > > message (but only its ID). However, I think, it should be possible
> > > to
> > > improve the implementation, anyway.
> > 
> > Okay, then let's try to include everything needed to manually update
> > a
> > BDiskDevice and it's children in response to a given notification
> > without having to ask the kernel to do it for us.
> 
> I was first sceptical, because the amount of data to be sent, when the
> hierarchy changes, might be (or rather: was) relatively great. But
> since the granularity of the actions performed is rather fine now, 
> this
> shouldn't be a problem anymore. It becomes rather important, that all
> notification messages are actually received, but by moving the message
> delivery for notifications of all kind from the kernel into the
> registrar, this should be rather safe to assume. As a fallback for 
> very
> rare situations the complete device can be updated (a change counter 
> as
> already implemented can be employed to detect skipped notifications).

I was wondering what the change counter thing was for, but I kept 
forgetting to ask. I assume it's simply incremented each time it's 
updated, so one can tell which version is newer by simple change 
counter comparison?

-Tyler