From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: %e switch doesn't work for udev
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:44:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1104853493.9042.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28890729.1104822507859.JavaMail.www@wwinf0603>
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 08:08 +0100, Philippe ROUQUIER wrote:
> Hi,
> (I've not suscribed to the list so if you've got an answer please reply
> directly to me).
> I've read in the udev FAQ that this is the right place for talking and
> asking about udev problems, if not please tell me the right place to
> send my question.
You are at the right place.
> here is the thing, in my /etc/udev/rules.d, I've set up something like
> BUS="ide", KERNEL="hd[b-z]", SYSFS{removable}="1", NAME="%k",
> SYMLINK="cdroms/cdrom%e" as it is advised in some docs. Now the problem
> is it doesn't work: for example hdb (a cdrom) creates
> a /dev/cdroms/cdrom symlink pointing to hdb and hdc (another cdrom
> reader) also creates the same symlink later which is pointing to hdc
> this time. The only way I've found to distinguish between the two cdroms
> is with the %b switch but I really want to use the %e. I use udev
> version 0.50 and I've got the newest hotplug package.
> any idea what is going wrong?
What does:
udevinfo -q all -p /block/hdb
udevinfo -q all -p /block/hdc
print?
Kay
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2005-01-04 7:08 %e switch doesn't work for udev Philippe ROUQUIER
2005-01-04 15:44 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2005-01-04 20:18 ` Kay Sievers
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