[dm-devel] SUSE multipath-tools patch resync

[Christophe Varoqui]

On mer., 2011-05-18 at 17:03 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Hi Christophe,
> 
> finally I've finished rebasing my patch queue for
> multipath-tools to the latest upstream git commit.
> The resulting tree is at:
> 
> git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hare/multipath-tools.git
> branch for-christophe
> 
I'll start merging directly from your repo on wednesday. Reviewers
please dig the code at the source there.

Thanks for the rebase Hannes.

> Here are the summary lines of the patches:
>   * Reload map for device read-only setting changes
>   * Increase priority value for emc priority callout
>   * Allow dev_loss to be set to 'infinity'
>   * Update manpages
>   * multipath: add '-t' option to dump internal hwtable
>   * Reassign existing device-mapper maps
>   * alua: Handle LBA_DEPENDENT state
>   * Update multipathd init script for SuSE
>   * multipathd: Add PID to 'show daemon' cli command
>   * Update pid file handling
>   * Serialize startup on large machines
>   * Add 'shutdown' cli command
>   * multipathd: Update 'max_fds' handling
>   * multipathd: crash in reconfigure CLI command
>   * Add 'max_polling_interval' config variable
>   * libmultipath: Only count UP and GHOST paths for prio update
>   * Always synchronize with dm state
>   * multipathd is not starting waitevent checker for single paths
>   * More debugging output when synchronizing path states
>   * libmultipath: Make path state message unique
>   * Update dev_loss_tmo for no_path_retry
>   * Check for valid argument in update_multipath_strings()
>   * libmultipath: Remove duplicate calls to path_offline()
>   * Check for offline path in get_prio()
>   * Use state name in get_state()
>   * Only check offline status for SCSI devices
>   * libmultipath: zero out sense buffer in do_inq()
>   * multipathd: fix memory issues in cli.c
>   * multipathd: Remove handling of 'umount' events
>   * Safe memory allocation in cli_handlers
>   * multipathd: Fix uxlsnr race condition on shutdown
>   * Rework sysfs device handling in multipathd
>   * multipath: add SuSE init file
>   * Checker name is not displayed on failure
>   * Unload priority modules
>   * Display avg priority as group priority
>   * libmultipath: Improve debugging of log messages
>   * libmultipath: rework sysfs handling
>   * libmultipath: update waiter handling
>   * libmultipath: do not fallback to search /proc/partitions
>   * Start uevent service handler from main thread
>   * Use lists for uevent processing
>   * Remove sysfs_attr cache
>   * Fixup strip trailing whitespaces for getuid return value
>   * Check return value for select_alias()
>   * Use enum free_path_mode for free_paths argument
>   * vector paranoia
>   * Update cli request processing
>   * Implement 'bindings_file' option
>   * kpartx: Intendation fix in devmapper.c
>   * Use regmatch when checking for duplicates in hwtable
>   * Update hwtable factorization
>   * Specify prioritizer in the multipath section, too
>   * Static Load balancing prioritizer
>   * Synchronize dm states for IO errors
>   * Add 'max_polling_interval' config variable
>   * libmultipath: do not access dm structures after dm_task_destroy
>   * Correctly remove logical partition maps
>   * rdac checker: Whitespace cleanup
>   * libmultipath: Fix possible string overflow
>   * More debugging output for feature changes
>   * Fixup debugging in dmparser.c
>   * Correctly update feature strings
>   * Select 'features' from multipath configuration
>   * Increase uevent buffer size
>   * libmultipath: remove strcmp_chomp()
>   * Remove sysfs_lookup_devpath_by_subsys_id()
>   * libmultipath: resolve hash collisions in pgcmp()
>   * libmultipath: correct path count in setup_map()
>   * Make status variable local
>   * Make params variable local
>   * multipath segfaults if configuration file contains errors
>   * Use '--replace-whitespace' option for scsi_id
>   * Asynchronous mode for tur checker
>   * Move setup_thread_attr() to uevent.c
>   * TUR checker should not return 'failed' for reservation conflict
>   * directio: Reset 'running' parameter
>   * Use timeout parameter for directio
>   * libmultipath: check argument length in execute_program()
>   * readsector0: block count calculation wrong
>   * checkers: argument paranoia
>   * Use refcounting for checkers
>   * kpartx: Add option '-f' to force devmap creation
>   * Add 'no_partitions' feature
>   * Implement 'update' option for kpartx
>   * kpartx: Indentation fix
>   * Add compability flag LIBDM_API_COOKIE
> 
> (Did I mention I had quite a few outstanding?)
> They are ordered in reverse order, in case you'd want to
> cross-check against the git tree.
> 
> How to proceed best here?
> Sending them all for review to the mailinglist seems a
> bit excessive, but then that'll be automated anyway,
> so I don't care.
> Just tell me what you prefer.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Hannes

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