[dm-devel] [PATCH] udev-md-raid-assembly.rules: skip if DM_UDEV_DISABLE_OTHER_RULES_FLAG

Martin Wilck mwilck at suse.com
Tue Feb 22 13:54:33 UTC 2022


Neil,

On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 10:36 +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> > The flags that DM use for udev were introduced before systemd
> > project
> > even existed. We needed to introduce the
> > DM_UDEV_DISABLE_OTHER_RULES_FLAG
> > to have a possibility for all the "other" (non-dm) udev rules to
> > check
> > for if there's another subsystem stacking its own devices on top of
> > DM
> > ones.
> 
> If this is an established API that DM uses, then presumably it is
> documented somewhere.  If a link to that documentation were provided,
> it
> would look a a whole lot less like a hack.

Peter has provided a link to libdevmapper.h in his previous post in
this thread. Is this a request for me to include that link in the patch
description?

Regards,
Martin





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