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remove "all_partitions" option
authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:52:48 +0000 (08:52 +0200)
committerKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:52:48 +0000 (08:52 +0200)
commit1f084fe5811ce251d516a8022f8c7c27d0ef1f53
treeee6820255a29c135a37895304e22d9bf889dc83f
parent236fae6cf1a619a92174efdf84cd7d91e7d4348d
remove "all_partitions" option

We can not predict the major/minor of non-existing devices:
  $ grep . /sys/class/block/sd*/dev
  /sys/class/block/sda1/dev:259:524288
  /sys/class/block/sda2/dev:259:262144
  /sys/class/block/sda3/dev:259:786432
  /sys/class/block/sda4/dev:259:131072
  /sys/class/block/sda/dev:259:0
  /sys/class/block/sdb/dev:259:655360
  /sys/class/block/sdc/dev:259:393216

If this functionality is still needed for some broken hardware, it needs to be
solved with a tool not part of the udev package. Because such option is unreliable
and unsafe to use.
NEWS
libudev/libudev-device-private.c
libudev/libudev-device.c
libudev/libudev-private.h
test/udev-test.pl
udev/udev-node.c
udev/udev-rules.c
udev/udev.xml
udev/udevadm-info.c