Re: patches from the debian package

[Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 12:13:09AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 11:05 -0800, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 04:50:31PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > scsi_id_tmp: when udevstart is started, /tmp is not writeable.
> > > 
> > 
> > What if /dev does not exist (udev_root modified) or perhaps not writable?
> > 
> > Does udev put temp files under /dev?
> 
> Hmm, what about letting udev create the temporary node, instead of doing
> it in the *_id programs itself? That may be the best solution.
> 
> Something like:
>   PROGRAM="/sbin/scsi_id -d %N", ...
> 
> What do you think?

Yes, that would be nice.

scsi_id pre-dates the addition of any of the % code, and relies on the
DEVPATH environment variable.

So it also needs code changes to use the DEVPATH plus any command line
option, and/or a new % value for the sysfs path, like:

	PROGRAM="scsi_id -d %N -s %p", ...

It should still figure out whether or not to print a trailing "\n" for
normal command line usage. DEVPATH set could be the trigger, though that
is not clean (using -s <devpath> for sysfs path, but then using DEVPATH to
figure out if \n is printed).

-- Patrick Mansfield


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