Re: [dm-devel] multipath conf file "device {}" support

[christophe varoqui <christophe varoqui free fr>]

Legitimate, done.
Will appear in git tree in a few minutes.

Regards,

On mer, 2005-09-14 at 21:49 -0400, goggin, edward wrote:
> I'm wondering why when I put "device {}" entries in the multipath conf file
> I
> lose all of the other entries setup in the libmultipath/hwtable.c file.
> Devices
> which do not match the vendor and model strings of the device entries I
> setup in the conf file are all forced to pick up default multipath
> attributes.
> 
> This approach forces me to know the attributes for all vendor/model device
> types in my SAN configuration whenever I want to setup even a small change
> in the device attributes for a single device type.
> 
> I would rather see the that the entries that are setup in the conf file
> simply
> override the ones setup in the hwtable.c file.  Yet, entries already setup
> in
> the hwtable.c file which are not overridden remain valid.  The only devices
> which pick up defaults are ones for which there is not a device entry in
> either the libmultipath/hwtable.c file or the multipath conf file.
> 
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