Since the first time I sent them, they got no response at all, I'm resending the alternative solution to my all_devs patch, which uses a whole new multipath.conf section. "overrides" Adding an overrides section to the existing multipath configuration system would have involved a lot (over 1500 lines) of mostly copy/paste code. Intead of doing that, I overhauled dict.c and propsel.c to use macros to cut down on code duplication. This made adding the new section much easier. Also, I'm resending my find_multipaths patch, based on the conversation I had here. http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2014-July/msg00029.html Just to clarify. find_multipaths is a configurable option that when set to 'yes' will make multipath only run on devices have more than one path. This means that users can mostly leave the blacklist alone, and they will only get the multipath devices that they want. The only time the blacklist is necessary is when users actually have multiple paths to a device, but still don't want multipath set up on it. It's been around since RHEL6, and it is turned on in the default multipath.conf file in RHEL7. The internal default is "off". Benjamin Marzinski (6): libmultipath: rewrite dict.c with function generation macros libmultipath: cleanup propsel.c with macros for common actions libmultipath: add overrides section to multipath.conf add find_multipaths option correctly set partition delimiter on rename libmultipath: only add uninitialized paths in check_path libmultipath/config.c | 10 +- libmultipath/config.h | 3 + libmultipath/configure.c | 11 + libmultipath/defaults.h | 3 +- libmultipath/devmapper.c | 14 +- libmultipath/dict.c | 3221 +++++++++++--------------------------------- libmultipath/dict.h | 7 + libmultipath/discovery.c | 2 + libmultipath/pgpolicies.c | 2 +- libmultipath/print.c | 30 + libmultipath/print.h | 1 + libmultipath/propsel.c | 761 +++++------ libmultipath/structs.c | 9 +- libmultipath/structs.h | 45 +- libmultipath/wwids.c | 26 + libmultipath/wwids.h | 1 + multipath.conf.annotated | 18 +- multipath.conf.defaults | 2 + multipath.conf.synthetic | 3 + multipath/main.c | 33 +- multipath/multipath.conf.5 | 57 + multipathd/cli_handlers.c | 10 + multipathd/main.c | 9 + 23 files changed, 1375 insertions(+), 2903 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.1 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
