[kde-freebsd] kde / device-notifier treats ufs partition as removable disk?

Raphael Kubo da Costa rakuco at FreeBSD.org
Thu Apr 12 01:57:52 UTC 2012


Andriy Gapon <avg at FreeBSD.org> writes:

> on 26/03/2012 19:28 Max Brazhnikov said the following:
>> On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:26:58 +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>> on 15/03/2012 09:31 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>>>> I'd rather fix the Device Notifier behavior.
>>>
>>> The following patch seems to work.
>>> The idea is to correctly go from a filesystem Solid device to its StorageDrive
>>> device ancestor while ignoring intermediate volume/partition devices.
>>> A direct parent of a filesystem device could be a partition which does not
>>> support StorageDrive interface and thus nothing intelligent could be deduced
>>> about its hot plug properties.
>>
>> I've never experience this problem, but I see the point.
>> Can you please submit it directly upstream?
>
> It seems that Device Notifier in upstream is significantly different from what
> we have in 4.7.  I'll have to see if the problem is present in 4.8 and how to
> adapt the patch if needed.

You might want to take a look at the code in master meanwhile, just to
make sure your effort is not wasted again in 4.9.


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