From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch to call dev.d scripts also with $SYMLINK
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 21:52:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041005215242.GA6147@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <414EDAC1.5050903@redhat.com>
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:39:33PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 02:18:44PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 03:27:29PM +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> > > especially useful to set pam_console ownerships for e.g. /dev/cdrom, which
> > > is a symlink to the $DEVNAME.
> >
> > Hm, this patch doesn't apply anymore. Care to redo it?
>
> Why not just ask udevinfo for the symlinks pointing to the device node?
> That was the original idea, why we didn't put this in the dev.d/
> environment.
>
> [kay@pim ~]$ udevinfo -q symlink -n /dev/hdc
> cdrom
Ah, even better. Glad I didn't apply it :)
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-20 13:27 Patch to call dev.d scripts also with $SYMLINK Harald Hoyer
2004-10-05 21:18 ` Greg KH
2004-10-05 21:39 ` Kay Sievers
2004-10-05 21:52 ` Greg KH [this message]
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