From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:29:06 +0000 Subject: Re: _id utilities Message-Id: <1150720146.3243.56.camel@pim.off.vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <20060619121157.GA23044@fargo> In-Reply-To: <20060619121157.GA23044@fargo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:11 +0200, David G=C3=B3mez wrote:> A couple of que= stions. Why aren't "scsi_id", "cdrom_id", installed> by default? If they're= now the standard utilities to manage persistent> device naming they should= be installed with 'make install'. Well it's Linux, there is no "standard". :) It's up to the distro's todecid= e what to put in here. There are also no "standard" rules installedby udev = until now. > And, why is the default path to install them /lib/udev? It's also> harcod= ed in the source and it doesn't look good. It'd be better to> install them = in /sbin All tools can be called by just using their name: RUN=3D"firmware.sh", ifth= ey are in /lib/udev. The tools are not really useful outside of udevand int= entionally don't show up on shell autocompletion (scsi_id has asymlink to /= sbin for backwards compatibility). In general the udev tools will not give you any information which is notalr= eady available in /dev/disk/by-*/, so there is no real need to makethem pub= lic in /sbin and get the pain of keeping the interfaces stable. Kay _______________________________________________Linux-hotplug-devel mailing = list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.netLinux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourcef= orge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel