[dm-devel] multipath-0.5.0 still provides broken udev rules

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 04/26/2016 10:39 AM, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> On 26.4.2016 07:43, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> On 04/25/2016 07:38 PM, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 02:56:35PM +0200, Christophe Varoqui wrote:
>>>>     Hi,
>>>>     Those example udev rules are indeed unmaintained and should
>>>> be removed not
>>>>     to confuse distributors.
>>>>     Distributors can't be asked to agree on a common udev
>>>> ruleset. Ben,
>>>>     Hannes, Xosé, Peter are you ok with my deleting the udev
>>>> rules example ?
>>>
>>> I am personally fine with kpartx.rules being deleted. Red Hat
>>> doesn't
>>> package it.
>>>
>> Well, we do. We use kpartx to generate partitions for multipath and
>> dmraid, so we do need this rule.
>> Please do not delete it; if so I will only have to re-add it again
>> in a SUSE-specific patch.
> 
> Hi
> 
> Can you please elaborate what is the 'specific' need of SUSE for patch?
> 
> AFAIK there should be no need for it - all identifiers are not
> tracked by
> 10-dm.rules
> 
> It has whole logic about device state built-in.
> 
> So what exactly would you need to trace in kpartx.rules ?
> 
We use kpartx.rules to call 'kpartx' itself for creating the
partition devices on top of any multipath or dmraid devices.

If that logic has been moved into other, generic, device-mapper
rules please let me know.
But until then we need the kpartx.rules. file.

Cheers,

Hannes
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