I applied Kiyoshi"s patch. Can you elaborate on the problems you see with the asynchronous hotplug model ? I would like to express my reluctance to add a devmap special case to kpartx. Regards, cvaroqui On lun, 2005-05-16 at 15:21 -0400, Jun'ichi Nomura wrote: > Hello Christophe, > > Attached patch adds '-m' option which makes kpartx > to accept device map name. > > Using with the cvs version of libdevmapper or with the > patch suggested by Kiyoshi Ueda today, we don't need > to depend on asynchronous nature of hotplug when it's > not necessary. > > For example, we can do this for initialization: > multipath > dmsetup info -c --noheadings -o name | xargs -l1 kpartx -a -m > otherwise we had to insert adhoc length of sleep to wait for > the completion of hotplug events. > > Please consider to apply. > > Thanks, > Jun'ichi Nomura > > -- > > dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- christophe varoqui <christophe.varoqui@xxxxxxx>
