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------- Comment From Vineeth.Vijayan at ibm.com 2020-12-10 08:39 EDT-------
Unfortunately .defval="1" functionality doesnt work for this case.
Instead, what we do is, we modify the root_check() function in root.c,such a way that, the required functionality of zdev:early=1 is enabled by default, based on a MACRO.

The new MACRO will be build-time configurable, which will then be used
by Canonical while building the chzdev.

The patch is being developed and will push to s390-tools upstream once
it is ready. Which can then be used by Canonical. So, we dont need a
Canonical-only change in the code; But the change is only the MACRO-
definition passed during the build-time.

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Title:
  [UBUNTU 20.04] udev rule change did not get applied

Status in subiquity:
  Invalid
Status in Ubuntu on IBM z Systems:
  New
Status in s390-tools package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  During the ubuntu installation in tessia, we do chzdev for both dasd
  and qeth devices, as below.

  2020-08-20 09:54:45 | INFO | START subiquity/Early/run/command_1 : chzdev -e dasd 385c
  2020-08-20 09:54:45 | INFO | SUCCESS subiquity/Early/run/command_1 : chzdev -e dasd 385c
  2020-08-20 09:54:45 | INFO | START subiquity/Early/run/command_2 : chzdev -e qeth 0.0.bdf0
  2020-08-20 09:54:47 | INFO | SUCCESS subiquity/Early/run/command_2 : chzdev -e qeth 0.0.bdf0

  and we can see the below files in the /etc/udev/rules.d/
  oot at m8360024:~# ls -l /etc/udev/rules.d/
  total 76
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   154 Aug 20 09:08 41-cio-ignore.rules
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   430 Aug 20 09:08 41-dasd-eckd-0.0.385c.rules
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   357 Aug 20 09:08 41-generic-ccw-0.0.0009.rules
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1049 Aug 20 09:08 41-qeth-0.0.bdf0.rules
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58549 Aug 20 09:10 70-snap.snapd.rules

  Now, lsinitramfs shows files as below,

  root at m8360024:~# lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-42-generic | grep 41
  etc/udev/rules.d/41-cio-ignore-root.rules
  etc/udev/rules.d/41-dasd-eckd-0.0.385c.rules
  usr/lib/udev/rules.d/41-cio-ignore.rules
  usr/lib/udev/rules.d/41-dasd-eckd-0.0.385c.rules
  usr/lib/udev/rules.d/41-generic-ccw-0.0.0009.rules
  usr/lib/udev/rules.d/41-qeth-0.0.bdf0.rules

  Even though lsinitramfs shows the below files, they are overruled by
  the filesystem files.

  Next thing we did was to modify the 41-qeth-0.0.bdf0.rules and
  modified the buffer_count to 128 (As in the attached file). In ideal
  scenario, the value should we modified as mentioned in the bug. But,
  in our case, if we are not doing a zipl or update-initramfs -u, the
  value is not getting modified.

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