On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 15:11 -0500, Chris Lumens wrote: > I know at least Will is going to object to this approach, based on talks > in #anaconda. He'd prefer that I set it up so you can immediately go into > the storage spoke and devices are shown as they are detected. I think that's > a good idea, but I have chosen to not do so for the following reasons: > > (1) It would require changes to storageInitialize and DeviceTree that I don't > believe we have time or manpower for right now. > > (1a) We can always go back and add this kind of fancier, on-demand behavior > later. I don't think i've done anything to prevent that. > > (2) Storage probing is done in multiple passes and builds up as a tree. I think > we'd run into a problem where component devices of more complicated structures > are shown as intermediates. I'm thinking the drives that are components of a > multipath or RAID set here. Makes sense! It seems clear that we'd all *like* it if the devices were detected/displayed asynchronously, but that's not how the current code works. So this seems like the right approach for the first release. Hopefully we can keep some notes/comments in place that remind us what needs to be done when we come back to this idea in the future. So: no objections here! -w _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
