From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karel Zak Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:41:45 +0000 Subject: Re: Udev integration for device-mapper and its subsystems. Message-Id: <20090429124144.GA8600@nb.net.home> List-Id: References: <49F5DC36.9080309@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <49F5DC36.9080309@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 01:52:37PM +0200, Milan Broz wrote: > This requires kernel changes outside DM, like remove device name limit > in partitioning code. > > - fix tools to "understand" the new names > * long name in /sys limitation * long name in /proc/partitions, we have many tools (fdisk, sfdisk, blockdev, losetup, libblkid ...) where is sscanf(line, " %d %d %llu %128[^\n ]", ...) or less than 128 bytes ;-( Karel -- Karel Zak