From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott James Remnant Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:08:30 +0000 Subject: Re: udev problem (and fix) for /dev/mtdblock* Message-Id: <1237457310.6618.36.camel@quest> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-hERqyWlZxtDWnkRwhMvh" List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --=-hERqyWlZxtDWnkRwhMvh Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=3D=3D"ram*|loop*|fd*|mtd*|nbd*|gnbd*|dm-*|md*", GOTO=3D"persist= ent_storage_end" > > > > It'd be good to see this bug fixed before lenny goes final... >=20 > 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. :) >=20 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 --=20 Scott James Remnant scott@canonical.com --=-hERqyWlZxtDWnkRwhMvh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAknCGZ0ACgkQSnQiFMl4yK4dEgCeJtnjYv7zBvnuEWuoBt+wnVus NtoAoIWIorPrTW8ZLwAjO9s/O2zAnvdc =mCTJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-hERqyWlZxtDWnkRwhMvh--