Re: multipath-0.5.0 still provides broken udev rules

[Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>]

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 ?

Regards

Zdenek