diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index ce9ef1a4df04..3e5be6f441cc 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 09a44cc15079f80c1416cde1a1d5b2cdd8f2118a
+refs/heads/master: 4f54b0e9485644a3c5fca2ae43bcbe7376825747
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/md/md.c b/trunk/drivers/md/md.c
index 52f9865096c6..e57213dacd25 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -3691,6 +3691,8 @@ static int do_md_stop(mddev_t * mddev, int mode)
 
 			module_put(mddev->pers->owner);
 			mddev->pers = NULL;
+			/* tell userspace to handle 'inactive' */
+			sysfs_notify(&mddev->kobj, NULL, "array_state");
 
 			set_capacity(disk, 0);
 			mddev->changed = 1;