Comment # 19 on bug 1051465 from Thomas Blume

(In reply to Franck Bui from comment #18)
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> (In reply to Thomas Blume from comment #15)
> > 
> > Attaching the full test output below.
> > Are the symlinks ok like that?
> 
> You shouldn't see any difference in the generated symlinks, should you ?

The patch provides symlinks with the fractional serial id, like it was shown
with scsi_id used.
Still, I see a fractional serial id as kind of fault, because it might be non
uniqe.
Therefore I've also created an additional symlink that provides the full serial
id.
It looks like this is alo what upstream does, and I think this is the one we
should use long term. We should keep the symlink with the fractional serial id
only for backward compatibility.
So, the difference is an additional symlink with the full serial id.
But yes, if there are good reasons to see no difference, I can take this out.

> Also please make sure to run the latest version of systemd, especially the
> version containing 8ea065d44c161675df2a01542889d58bbb4f850d commit.
> 
> Did you already submit your patch to upstream ?

Yes, here:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/6651

It seems that this feature has been removed by purpose, see:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/a0ee5a05bb3a9a838c35e07ff7a0bb7bbd2d0c9b

But it is unclear why.
Hopefully Kay Sievers will respond in the pull request.