[systemd-devel] [PATCH] udevd: SAS: use SAS addr + PHY id in by-path whenever possible.

[Kay Sievers]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Tomas Henzl <thenzl at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 09/24/2014 05:03 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:

>>>> Simple as: Don't add new features to systemd/udev, only fix bugs.
>
> The by-path has been part of udev for a long time, the users of this
> feature are from the same camp as the users of the,
> 'enterprise storage'. Everyone has been happily using it,
> until someone found out that the values shown are incorrect.
> The patch posted here corrects the values so it can work as expected.
> You probably were confused by something, but this is _not_ a new feature
> it's a obvious bug fix.
>
> Please consider again inclusion of this patch.

Sorry, we are better not changing the current, and possibly used link names.
They are created that way since a long time and nobody knows who uses
the current ones.

Adding additional infrastructure to create more than one by-path link would
be a new feature, which we will for various mentioned reasons not add to
the current code, but which needs to happen in an external package,
maintained/reviewed by someone with an enterprise-storage background
and not live in the systemd code base.

I hope you understand the reasoning,
Kay