On Sonntag, 29. November 2009, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 20:15, Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have a similar issue. > > the lvm2 package on gentoo installs this udev rule: > > KERNEL=="device-mapper", SYMLINK+="mapper/control" > > > > Now udev-147 cries about not being able to create the symlink as > > kernel-provided name is already set to "mapper/control". > > Yes, this is expected, mapper/control is the primary name, and not a > symlink. I suggested lvm2 maintainers to change the rule to KERNEL=="device-mapper", NAME="mapper/control" > > > So is the only possibility to surpress this warning to adjust the rule to > > this? > > KERNEL=="device-mapper", NAME="mapper/control" > > Looks like, yes. Recent kernels/udev though should not have any rule > for this. We removed all such rules from the udev default rule set. > Sure, but gentoo does aim to support at least not only the newest kernels, but udev for now still supports 2.6.27 or even older versions with older udev versions. Is there a way to conditionalize these rules besides shell tricks at boot checking kernel versions and discarding some rules/rule files on some conditions. Matthias -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
