[dm-devel] tools target for SLES9 SP2 and RHEL4 U2

Lars Marowsky-Bree lmb at suse.de
Tue Jun 14 12:00:27 UTC 2005


On 2005-06-14T13:44:34, Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui at free.fr> wrote:

> I'm sure you understand this patch is rather invasive.  I'm clearly
> reluctant to maintain backward compatibility on this point.
> 
> Distributors assuming the burden of it is not nice either.

Yes, I looked at how much the code diverged, and got pretty frightened
to be maintaining such a patch.

> Have you pondered backporting the uevent kernel patch : it seems
> rather safe (from my seat, that is :)

That might indeed be the cleanest solution. What exactly is needed for
it to work for multipath-tools?


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb at suse.de>

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