On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:24:53AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > There should be a possibility to tell udev not to create a device node.
> >
> > device-mapper: Usually set up by libdevmapper (or EVMS tools) which
> > creates the device node on its own under /dev/mapper/<name>.
> >
> > With udev a second device is created named /dev/dm-<minor> which is not
> > really needed.
>
> Good point. Ok, I'll agree with you. Care to make up a patch for this
> kind of feature?
Yes, I can try.
There was no way to tell not to do anything so I created one. Errors
are signalled via negative return values, so I thought that a positive,
non-zero one could mean to ignore the device. I don't like it but
perhaps you have a better solution.
This one is nothing important, just add some quotes to be more consistent
with the rest and make sure that the return value is positive (since the
error return values are negative). Hmm?
[PATCH] make udev user callable to query the database
Here is a slightly better version that prints the usage if a unknown option is given:
kay@pim:~/src/udev.kay$ ./udev -x
./udev: invalid option -- x
Usage: [-qrVh]
-q arg query database
-r print udev root
-V print udev version
-h print this help text
> Here is a patch that makes it possible to call udev with options on the command line.
> Valid options are for now:
>
> -V for the udev version:
> kay@pim:~/src/udev.kay$ ./udev -V
> udev, version 011_bk
>
> -r for the udev root:
> kay@pim:~/src/udev.kay$ ./udev -r
> /udev/
>
> -q to query the database with the sysfs path for the name of the node:
> kay@pim:~/src/udev.kay$ ./udev -q /class/video4linux/video0
> test/video/webcam0
[PATCH] make symlink work properly if there is already a file in its place
If a file that is not a symlink (node, socket, fifo, etc) already
exist where udev need to create a symlink, symlink() fails. This
patch basically test for an existing file, and unlink it.
Attached is a patch for ide-devfs.sh,
The script is merged with the one from Martin Schlemmer, and cleaned up
by him, to create both types of symlinks with one single rule:
Attached is a patch for udev-add.c to ignore empty symlink string parts.
Issue was brought up by ide-devfs.sh with only one symlink returned, while two are expected.
greg@kroah.com [Thu, 25 Dec 2003 03:44:19 +0000 (19:44 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix long delay for all devices in namedev
Now we only sleep if we can't find the device file, and we have
a hack to sleep for 1 second if we are on a partition. This will be
removed when the libsysfs change gets made...
In udev-009 and previous releases, for klibc compatibility, the pgsize var
in sysfs_read_attribute() (file sysfs_dir.c under libsysfs) is handcoded
to 0x4000.
Should it not be 4096 bytes (0x1000 in hex) instead of 0x4000 (16k bytes)?
2003-12-22 multipath-010
* tweak the install target in Makefile
* stop passing fds as argument : this change enable a strict
segregation of ugly 2.4 code
* sysfs version of get_lun_strings()
* be careful about the return of get_unique_id() since errors
formerly caught up by if(open()) in the caller fn are now returned
by get_unique_id()
* send get_serial() in unused.c
2003-12-22 multipath-010
* don't print .sg_dev if equal to .dev (2.6) in print_path()
* since the kernel code handles defective paths, remove all
code to cope with them :
* move do_tur() to unused.c
* remove .state from path struct
* remove .state settings & conditionals
* add a cmdline switch to force maps to failover mode,
ie 1 path per priority group
* add default policies to the whitelist array (spread io ==
MULTIBUS / io forced to 1 path == FAILOVER)
* move get_disk_size() call out of add_map() to coalesce()
* comment tricky coalesce() fn
* bogus unsused.c file renamed to unused.c
2003-12-20 multipath-010
* big ChangeLog update
* start to give a little control over target params :
introduce cmdline arg -i to control polling interval
* cope with hotplug-style calling convention :
ie "multipath scsi $DEVPATH" ... to avoid messing with
online maps not concerned by an event
* example hotplug agent to drop in /etc/hotplug.d/scsi
* revert the run & resched patch : unless someone proves me
wrong, this was overdesigned
* move commented out functions in unused.c
* update multipath target params to "udm[23] style"
* mp target now supports nr_path == 1, so do we
* add gratuitous free()
* push version forward
[PATCH] experimental CALLOUT script for devfs ide node creation with cd, disc, part
Here is a experimental CALLOUT script for udev to create devfs nodes
for IDE-devices. Not that I need these, I just wanted to see if it works :)
The script is really stupid, no error handling, nothing more than
absolutely needed. The rule uses the 'k' format char of the previous
patch. The %D is not used, so the user can have disc or disk :)
this single line:
CALLOUT, BUS="ide", PROGRAM="/etc/udev/ide-devfs.sh %k %b %n", ID="hd*", NAME="%1c", SYMLINK="%2c"
creates the following on my machine with two hard disks, one DVD and a PCMCIA-compact-flash inserted:
/udev
|-- hda
|-- hda1
|-- hda2
|-- hda4
|-- hdb
|-- hdb1
|-- hdc
|-- hde
|-- hde1
`-- ide
|-- host0
| |-- bus0
| | |-- target0
| | | `-- lun0
| | | |-- disc -> ../../../../../hda
| | | |-- part1 -> ../../../../../hda1
| | | |-- part2 -> ../../../../../hda2
| | | `-- part4 -> ../../../../../hda4
| | `-- target1
| | `-- lun0
| | |-- disc -> ../../../../../hdb
| | `-- part1 -> ../../../../../hdb1
| `-- bus1
| `-- target0
| `-- lun0
| `-- cd -> ../../../../../hdc
`-- host2
`-- bus0
`-- target0
`-- lun0
|-- disc -> ../../../../../hde
`-- part1 -> ../../../../../hde1
Ananth released sysfsutils 0.4.0 last night, I'm sure you saw the email.
Here's a patch with the latest changes from the pre-patch I already
gave you. It includes sysfs_get_device_parent(), which you said you
needed. I've run your test scripts and I've built scsi_id. Please
play around with this and check it out.
There are quite a few changes. Please do not access
structure pointers, like sysfs_device's parent, directly like
dev->parent. Please use the "get" function to retrieve. The functions
load things on demand and refresh views under the covers.
I've moved the malloc out of the udevdb into udev-remove to free the
struct after use and not to allocate a different struct in the case the
device is not in the data base. I seems a bit easier to read.
udev segfaults with NULL-pointer, if the device is not in the database:
./test.block: line 29: 4844 Segmentation fault $BIN block
Dec 17 22:47:42 pim udev[4882]: udev_remove_device: '/block/sdy' not found in database, falling back on default name
Dec 17 22:47:42 pim udev[4882]: udev_remove_device: name is '(null)'
Scsi_id hasn't been changed to use the latest libsysfs changes. The
"directory" in the sysfs_class_device is now considered "private" and only
should be accessed using functions. Treating the structures as handles lets
us only load information when it's needed, reducing caching or stale
information and also helping performance.
[PATCH] mark config files as such in the rpm spec file
Got a nasty surprise after upgrading my RPM. The config files weren't
marked as configs and were subsequently replaced! DOH! Fortunately, I
didn't have much in there yet but that certainly isn't something others
will like going forward. Attached is a simple patch to the spec file so
they aren't replaced in the future. The config files included in the
RPM should wind up as udev.conf.rpmnew, etc if they are different from
what is installed.
olh@suse.de [Wed, 17 Dec 2003 07:41:59 +0000 (23:41 -0800)]
[PATCH] dump latest klibc into the udev build tree
KLIBC is used as an internal makefile variable, it expands to either
true or false right now. udev should use something else than KLIBC to
allow build against the latest and greatest klibc version.
[PATCH] don't rely on field order in namedev_parse
o change the parsing to get a key from the rule and sort it
into our list of known keys instead of expecting a special order
o the key to match a sysfs file must be prependend by 'SYSFS_' now
to match with the new parsing.
(The config must be changed, but it's a bit more descriptive too.)
o put names of fields in define's, like the name of the methods
o update all tests and the man page
rml@ximian.com [Wed, 17 Dec 2003 07:30:15 +0000 (23:30 -0800)]
[PATCH] install initscript in udev rpm
Attached patch installs the initscript via 'make install' and adds it to
the RPM package. The RPM script then runs chkconfig(8) to setup the
initscript to run at the appropriate runlevels.
* Make the HW-specific get_unique_id switch pretty
* Prepare to field-test by whitelisting all known fibre array, try to
fetch WWID from the standard EVPD 0x83 off 8 for everyone ... we will
learn from feedback :)
Could you drop a note with the udev-009 release-notes asking for testing
this WWID fetching thing ?