From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:23:59 +0000 Subject: Re: udev and irda-usb trouble Message-Id: <1103678639.5845.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 20:12 -0500, Chris Horn wrote: > On Tuesday 21 December 2004 20:01, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 07:54:35PM -0500, Chris Horn wrote: > > > > > > Is there anything I can do to get udev (or whatever is responsible) from > > > deleting the nodes I put in by hand? Is there a "don't delete list > > > somewhere?" > > > > I don't understand, why do you want to keep device nodes that are never > > used? > > > > Anyway, that's a distro specific issue, I suggest asking the proper > > distro mailing list for how to do that. > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > greg k-h > > I'm sorry: one more message. I mis-typed what I want - and I see from your > message that I need to clarify my problem. I meant: > > "Is there anything I can do to get udev (or whatever is responsible) to NOT > delete nodes I've added by hand?" > > The problem is that when I go to sync my Palm Pilot with jpilot, udev (or some > other software) has often deleted the /dev/irda0 node I created for jpilot to > talk through. This means that almost every time I want to sync my Palm I > have to create /dev/irda0 by hand because something has deleted it. I want > to stop whatever is automatically deleting the nodes I've added by hand (in > this case /dev/irda0). It's really annoying! Does it really get deleted without a reboot? If your system use udev, than there is a high chance that the /dev directory is on tmpfs which will not survive a reboot. Kay ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel