Re: udev problem (and fix) for /dev/mtdblock*

[Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com>]

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On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 02:45 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:

> > The boot is easily cleaned up by a patch to a udev rules
> > file:  /etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules is
> > already skipping a bunch of devices, it just needs to add
> > the "mtd*" devices to what should be skipped:
> >
> >  KERNEL=="ram*|loop*|fd*|mtd*|nbd*|gnbd*|dm-*|md*", GOTO="persistent_storage_end"
> >
> > It'd be good to see this bug fixed before lenny goes final...
> 
> Udev, by default, investigates all block devices which are created by
> the kernel. People use label/uuid and other metadata based stuff, so
> we should look at them. We can not know in advance which device will
> not respond properly. I have requests where people ask for more
> persistent link support for mtd devices, while disabling them would
> really not make them happier. :)
> 
Indeed, for the Ubuntu ARM port we *rely* on having UUIDs for the MTD
partitions.  I would be unhappy if mtd devices did not have them.

Scott
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