On 09/25/2014 05:07 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Tomas Henzl <the...@redhat.com> wrote: >> On 09/24/2014 05:03 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: >>>>> Simple as: Don't add new features to systemd/udev, only fix bugs. >> The by-path has been part of udev for a long time, the users of this >> feature are from the same camp as the users of the, >> 'enterprise storage'. Everyone has been happily using it, >> until someone found out that the values shown are incorrect. >> The patch posted here corrects the values so it can work as expected. >> You probably were confused by something, but this is _not_ a new feature >> it's a obvious bug fix. >> >> Please consider again inclusion of this patch. > Sorry, we are better not changing the current, and possibly used link names. > They are created that way since a long time and nobody knows who uses > the current ones. > > Adding additional infrastructure to create more than one by-path link would > be a new feature, which we will for various mentioned reasons not add to > the current code, but which needs to happen in an external package, > maintained/reviewed by someone with an enterprise-storage background > and not live in the systemd code base.
I haven't noticed a single one technical reason why the by-path should be moved out from udev and not fixed there when it's needed and most importantly how that move would help the users of this feature. The only point I can understand is that you don't like storage related code in udev because you don't understand it and so you don't want to maintain it. I could try to explain that in case of any issues you may seek help in the scsi-misc list, but well ok it's your decision. This is I think by far not the last storage related code in udev, do you want to remove the other parts too, like the by-uuid and the other by-* obvious candidates ? Thanks, Tomas > > I hope you understand the reasoning, > Kay _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
