On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 15:03, Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Just do not try to swap kernel names with symlink names. There should be no problem having rules with NAME= as long as they match the standard kernel name. Kay -- 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
