Bug 780429

Summary:	sys-fs/multipath-tools: /etc/init.d/multipath won't load dm-multipath module
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Snail <jcduss13>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	major	CC:	ionen, sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581226
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Snail 2021-04-05 17:57:26 UTC

sys-fs/multipath-tools provides /etc/init.d/multipath to load dm-mod and/or dm-multipath modules. There is a test reading "if ! grep -qs device-mapper /proc/devices /proc/misc";I do not understand why because it prevents aforementioned modules to be loaded as it is always false. This seems useless, because modprobe is used with option "-q" anyway.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.sys-fs/multipath-tools
2. rc-update add multipath
3.
Actual Results:  
modules are not loaded.

Expected Results:  
modules loaded .

do not implement the test as it works fine without it.