# Re: \[PATCH 13/17\] watch\_queue: Implement mount topology and attribute change notifications \[ver \#5\]

- From: Miklos Szeredi \<miklos@szeredi.hu\>
- Date: 2020-08-03 11:17:26 
- List: linux-api
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2020/08/185817
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/keyrings/2020/03/175521/t.md

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On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 12:18 PM David Howells [ref] wrote:
>
> Miklos Szeredi [ref] wrote:
>
> > > fsinfo() then allows you to retrieve them by path or by mount ID.
> >
> > Shouldn't the notification interface provide the unique ID?
>
> Hmmm...  If I'm going to do that, I have to put the fsinfo-core branch first
> otherwise you can't actually retrieve the unique ID - and thus won't be able
> to make sense of the notification record.  Such a rearrangement might make
> sense anyway since Ian and Karel have been primarily concentrating on fsinfo
> and only more recently started adding notification support.

OTOH mount notification is way smaller and IMO a more mature
interface.  So just picking the unique ID patch into this set might
make sense.

Thanks,
Miklos
```