[dm-devel] tools target for SLES9 SP2 and RHEL4 U2

[Christophe Varoqui]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:00:27PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2005-06-14T13:44:34, Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> > I'm sure you understand this patch is rather invasive.  I'm clearly
> > reluctant to maintain backward compatibility on this point.
> > 
> > Distributors assuming the burden of it is not nice either.
> 
> Yes, I looked at how much the code diverged, and got pretty frightened
> to be maintaining such a patch.
> 
> > Have you pondered backporting the uevent kernel patch : it seems
> > rather safe (from my seat, that is :)
> 
> That might indeed be the cleanest solution. What exactly is needed for
> it to work for multipath-tools?
> 
For now only the following events :

- block dev add
- block dev remove

When transport uevents get implemented we may want to use them too, but it is not the case in HEAD.

Regards,
cvaroqui