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    device: do not merge devices · 8fe914ec
    Lennart Poettering authored
    Don't try to merge devices that have been created via dependencies when
    they appear in the system and can be recognized as the same.  Instead,
    simply continue to maintain them independently of each other, however
    with the same state cycle. Why? Because otherwise we'd have a hard time
    to seperate the dependencies after the devices are unplugged again and
    we hence cannot be sure anymore that next time the device is plugged in
    it will carry the same names.
    
    Example: if one depndency refers to dev-sda.device and another one to
    dev-by-id-xxxyyy.device we only learn at time of plug in of the device
    that it is actually the same device that was ment. In the moment the
    device is unplugged again we won't know anymore their relation to each
    other and the next time the harddisk is plugged it might even appear as
    dev-by-id-xxxyyy.device and dev-sdb.service. To ensure the dependencies
    continue to have the meaning they were intended to have let's hence keep
    the .device objects seperate all the time, even when they are plugged
    in.
    
    This patch also introduces a new Following= property which points from
    the various .device units of a specific device to the main .device unit
    for it. This can be used by the client side to figure out the relation
    of the .device units to each other and even filter units from display.
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