Re: [PATCH] enable auto=yes by default when using udev

[Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:29:10PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>Why to test for udev at all?  If the device does not exist, regardless
because udev whas what was giving me pains :)

>if udev is running or not, it might be a good idea to try to create it.
>Because IT IS NEEDED, period.  Whenever the operation fails or not, and
i believe we can set autof to 2 by default.

>whenever we fail if it fails or not - it's another question, and I think
>that w/o explicit auto=yes, we may ignore create error and try to continue,
>and with auto=yes, we fail on create error.
we need to distinguish between explicit auto=no, explicit auto=yes and
implicit auto=yes for this. maybe this is overkill

>as it does now.  If /dev/whatever exist, use it. If not, create it (unless,
>perhaps, auto=no is specified) directly with proper mknod("/dev/mdX"), but
>don't try to use some temporary names in /dev or elsewhere.
agreed!

L.

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