[Cluster-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/2] dlm: Send lockspace name with uevents

[Steven Whitehouse]

Hi,

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 10:23 -0500, David Teigland wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:53:37AM -0500, David Teigland wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 03:56:15PM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> > > Although it is possible to get this information from the path,
> > > its much easier to provide the lockspace as a seperate env
> > > variable.
> > 
> > I don't mind this, but it's more or less a style issue.  I'm going to try to
> > keep upstream and rhel as close as possible for a while to minimize the
> > backporting work in the early stages when it's usually heaviest.  That means
> > putting off things like this until later.
> 
> Also, libudev may make this less relevant,
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/libudev/
> 
> Dave
> 

I don't think so. The udev code is written on the basis that it looks at
the individual env variables, so I think its likely to be more useful in
the future,

Steve.