Bug#581190: multipath-tools: multipathd does not handle uevents with newer kernels

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Wed Jun 16 18:42:07 UTC 2010


HI Apollon,
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 04:34:07PM +0300, Apollon Oikonomopoulos wrote:
> Package: multipath-tools
> Version: 0.4.8-14+lenny2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Continuing the discussion in #580972, the form of uevents emitted by newer
> kernels (at least 2.6.32, possibly older ones as well) has changed and is
> incompatible with lenny's multipathd. This was fixed upstream, in a backwards
> compatible way, with commit 7fa7affc3d23dd9dc906804d22a61144bca9f9b9. This
> commit is already present in sid/squeeze and can also be applied against
> lenny's version. It would be great if you could backport it, so that lenny's
> version can work with newer kernels as well.
That patch makes a lot of sense and I've cherry-picked it for the Lenny
version. I'll to get this into the next point release but I'd like to
have a look at #580312 first - would be nice to get this fixed too.
 -- Guido





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