Re: Weird discrepancy between /dev/mapper/* and /dev/dm-* devices breaks lilo

["Loïc Minier" <lool+redhat@via.ecp.fr>]

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On Wed, Jan 31, 2007, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> Some distributions chose to configure udev to create /dev/dm-N inodes where
> N is the minor number.  (I have always discouraged that as a recipe for
> confusion: I believe that using configurable names is a better approach.)

 I seem to recall even RedHat or Fedora attempted to add these devices,
 but I suppose you know best.  The reasons why these were added in udev
 in Debian and Ubuntu are mentionned in http://bugs.debian.org/392623,
 but in short gnome-mount required this to work; perhaps this should be
 fixed in gnome-mount.  The details are in a comment of #401393 though:
  <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401393;msg=37>

 (attaching the patch I mentionned in the preceding mail but forgot,
 sorry)

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>

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--- lilo-22.7.3/debian/patches/00list
+++ lilo-22.7.3/debian/patches/00list
@@ -31,0 +32 @@
+20_devmapper-use-major-minor
--- lilo-22.7.3/debian/changelog
+++ lilo-22.7.3/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+lilo (1:22.7.3-1.4) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * New dpatch, 20_devmapper-use-major-minor, to address device-mapper devices
+    via major/minor instead of name for DM_DEVICE_TABLE; closes: #401393.
+
+ -- Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org>  Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:21:06 +0100
+
 lilo (1:22.7.3-1.3) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Non-maintainer upload to fix a few more l10n issues.
--- lilo-22.7.3.orig/debian/patches/20_devmapper-use-major-minor.dpatch
+++ lilo-22.7.3/debian/patches/20_devmapper-use-major-minor.dpatch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#! /bin/sh /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch-run
+## 20_devmapper-use-major-minor.patch.dpatch by Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org>
+##
+## All lines beginning with `## DP:' are a description of the patch.
+## DP: No description.
+
+@DPATCH@
+diff -urNad lilo-22.7.3~/geometry.c lilo-22.7.3/geometry.c
+--- lilo-22.7.3~/geometry.c	2007-01-31 15:20:37.000000000 +0100
++++ lilo-22.7.3/geometry.c	2007-01-31 15:20:43.000000000 +0100
+@@ -930,8 +930,9 @@
+ 	    slash++;
+ 		else
+ 	    slash = dmdev;
+-	    if (!dm_task_set_name(dmt, slash))
+-		die("device-mapper: dm_task_set_name(\"%s\") failed",dmdev);
++	    if (!dm_task_set_major(dmt, MAJOR(device)) ||
++	        !dm_task_set_minor(dmt, MINOR(device)))
++		die("device-mapper: dm_task_set_major() or dm_task_set_minor() failed");
+ 	    if (!dm_task_run(dmt))
+ 		die("device-mapper: dm_task_run(DM_DEVICE_TABLE) failed");
+ 

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