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On 11/20/2012 08:07 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 17:34 +0800, Qi.Chen@windriver.com wrote:
>> From: Chen Qi<Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
>>
>> mdadm hardcodes the udev rules dir to be '/lib/udev/rules.d'.
>> However, udev configs its base library directory to be ${base_libdir}
>> instead of '/lib'. Thus if the target has powerpc64 architecture,
>> the mdraid.rules file will be missing on the target, as the library
>> directory is 'lib64'.
>>
>> This patch makes the udev rules dir of mdadm configurable, so that
>> the mdraid.rules file will not be missing on any target.
>>
>> [YOCTO #2804]
> This is a bit of a tricky one. I suspect in this case we need to install
> all the udev rules to one place and have an udev look in that place,
> regardless of which multilib it was compiled for.
>
> We already have this problem with systemd_unitdir. I think we need to do
> something like set:
>
> nonarchlib = "/lib"
>
> and then use this value in places where we want it to be invariant (yet
> still allow the layout to be configurable).
>
> So your patch starts to help with this but there is more we need to do.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
Hi Richard,

Do you mean that what needs to be fixed is udev instead of mdadm?
Should I rework on this patch?

Thanks,

Chen Qi