udev: introduce ID_BLOCK_SUBSYSTEM property

Virtual block devices are a bit weird: they have no parent device, and
thus cannot be related to the subsystem they belong to, except by
pattern matching their name. This is OK to do if one knows what to look
for. However for tools that do not want to carry a list of known
subsystems with their appropriate matching patters this sucks. Let's
introduce a new ID_BLOCK_SUBSYSTEM property we can set on block devices
that carries an explicit string for this. Do so for a small number of
key subsystems: DM, loopback and zram.
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Lennart Poettering
2025-10-24 17:13:12 +02:00
parent 63b9c8611d
commit 2103067f25

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@@ -14,3 +14,11 @@ ACTION!="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="block", \
# Reset access rights to each loopback device once it gets detached.
ACTION=="change", SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNEL=="loop*", ENV{DISK_MEDIA_CHANGE}=="1", TEST!="loop/backing_file", GROUP="disk", MODE="660"
# Provide a somewhat cleaned up field indicating the subsystem various
# 'virtual' block devices belong too, in order to avoid replicating name based
# pattern matching in every consumer
ACTION!="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNEL=="dm-*", ENV{ID_BLOCK_SUBSYSTEM}="dm"
ACTION!="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNEL=="loop*", ENV{ID_BLOCK_SUBSYSTEM}="loop"
ACTION!="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNEL=="md*", ENV{ID_BLOCK_SUBSYSTEM}="md"
ACTION!="remove", SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNEL=="zram*", ENV{ID_BLOCK_SUBSYSTEM}="zram"