Re: Bug#404927: udev believes hardware raid devices are removable and sets the permissions to group floppy

[dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 11:29:59AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> reassign 404927 linux-2.6
> thanks
> 
> On Dec 29, Stefanos Harhalakis <v13@priest.com> wrote:
> 
> >   Notice the 'aacraid' and 'adaptec' values that identify the hardware
> >   raid controller and the 'removable flag. I believe that this is not
> >   a misconfiguration of me and I don't have access to another machine
> >   with a hardware raid controller to test it there.
> Blame the kernel then, udev just believes the information provided.

hey Marco,
 Can you elaborate on what you believe the kernel is doing
incorrectly? My first guess would be the setting of the removable
flag, but aacraid claims to be setting this to prevent partition table
caching - do you believe that to be an incorrect usage?

An explanation for it is here:
  http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0602.2/1231.html

It seems like there is precedence for workarounds for older kernels in
permissions.rules, so would it be appropriate to add an override of
the default floppy rule for aacraid devices for compatability even if
this is a kernel bug?

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dann frazier