On Sun, 2020-08-23 at 13:38 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote (24 Nov 2014 04:09:01): > > device_to_disk already knows how to do the mapping. We have this > > complicated wildcard here which doesn't match the regexp in > > device_to_disk, only because no-one got round to clearing out the devfs > > cruft which is the following '*' case. > > > > So I propose this instead: > > > > Subject: Remove devfs case for mapping partitions to whole disk names > > (Closes: #769107) > > > > Rather than using an unmaintainable wildcard for non-devfs > > partition device names, we should remove the obsolete devfs > > case and use device_to_disk by default. > > > > Also remove one of the many pointless uses of mapdevfs. > > Hi, > > what's the status here? > Should this be committed? > Or should I file this bug as will-not-fix? I think this should be fixed, but I don't know that I ever got as far as testing that patch. So this should probably wait until someone has done that. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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