[dm-devel] Question about dmevents

[Wood, Brian J]

Maybe Jonathan Brassow could shed some light on this :)

Since the documentation says the uuid is optional should this failure
check be modified to a log warning in the "_alloc_thread_status()"
function?


Brian Wood
Intel Corporation 
Digital Enterprise Group
Manageability & Platform Software Division
brian.j.wood at intel.com

>-----Original Message-----
>From: dm-devel-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:dm-devel-bounces at redhat.com]
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>Behalf Of Alasdair G Kergon
>Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 10:14 AM
>To: device-mapper development
>Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Question about dmevents
>
>On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 09:57:28AM -0700, Wood, Brian J wrote:
>> Hi Alasdair, I also read in the definition of DM_DEV_CREATE that the
>> uuid is optional. Since that is the case shouldn't the failure for
not
>> having a uuid in "_alloc_thread_status()" be taken out?
>
>I don't know this code, but in general userspace code should use uuid
if it
>is
>present.  If it isn't, it should fall back to using the name.  Whether
that
>leads to sensible behaviour in this particular case, I don't know.  If
it
>doesn't then it should be documented that uuid is a requirement.
>
>Alasdair
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