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



On Jan 03, dann frazier <dannf@debian.org> wrote:

>  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?
Yes, this looks like an abuse of the interface to me.

> 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?
There are workarounds for bugs which are going to be fixed, but looks
like this is going to stay forever...
Are there other drivers in this situation?

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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