[dm-devel] use regular gendisk registration in device mapper

[Milan Broz]

On 27/07/2021 18:18, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27 2021 at 12:02P -0400,
> Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 11:58:46AM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
>>>> This did not make a different to my testing
>>>> using dmsetup and the lvm2 tools.
>>>
>>> I'll try these changes running through the lvm2 testsuite.
>>
>> Btw, is ther documentation on how to run it somewhere?  I noticed
>> tests, old-tests and unit-tests directories, but no obvious way
>> to run them.
> 
> I haven't tracked how it has changed in a while, but I always run:
> make check_local
> 
> (but to do that you first need to ./configure how your distro does
> it... so that all targets are enabled, etc. Then: make).
> 
> Will revisit this shortly and let you know if my process needed to
> change at all due to lvm2 changes.

BTW it would be also nice to run cryptsetup testsuite as root - we do a lot
of DM operations there (and we depend on sysfs on some places).

You can just run configure, make and then make check.

Thanks,
Milan