Martin,
> The kernel's preference for type 8 designators (see below) is in
> contrast with the established user space algorithms, which determine
> SCSI WWIDs on productive systems in practice. User space can try to
> adapt to the kernel logic, but it will necessarily be a slow and
> painful pat
I am using the dm-mod.create kernel command line parameter to create a verity
device at boot. Both the data device and hash device are partitions on an eMMC
device. Seemingly at random, the verity device fails to be created at boot
because dm_init_init() (and wait_for_device_probe()) returned
