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authorPeter Rajnoha <prajnoha@redhat.com>2016-04-26 12:51:06 +0200
committerPeter Rajnoha <prajnoha@redhat.com>2016-04-26 12:57:37 +0200
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downloadlvm2-ecae76c713bd4fa6c9d8f2a2c990625e4f38b504.tar.gz
udev: rules: add comments explaining subsystem-specific rules
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diff --git a/udev/10-dm.rules.in b/udev/10-dm.rules.in
index 8d7a8ca8d..b4fa52ab7 100644
--- a/udev/10-dm.rules.in
+++ b/udev/10-dm.rules.in
@@ -13,6 +13,20 @@
# DM_UUID - UUID set for DM device (blank if not specified)
# DM_SUSPENDED - suspended state of DM device (0 or 1)
# DM_UDEV_RULES_VSN - DM udev rules version
+#
+# These rules cover only basic device-mapper functionality in udev.
+#
+# Various DM subsystems may contain further subsystem-specific rules
+# in 11-dm-<subsystem_name>.rules which should be installed together
+# with the DM subsystem and which extend these basic rules.
+# For example:
+# 11-dm-lvm.rules for LVM subsystem
+# 11-dm-mpath.rules for multipath subsystem (since version 0.6.0, recommended!)
+#
+# Even more specific rules may be required by subsystems so always
+# check subsystem's upstream repository for recent set of rules.
+# Also, keep in mind that recent rules may also require recent
+# subsystem-specific binaries.
KERNEL=="device-mapper", NAME="(DM_DIR)/control"