Re: Silly udev script [was Re: udev and devfs - The final word]

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:02:34AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:36:14PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:13:26AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > [ Yeah, that sounds like a singularly silly thing to do, but it's a good 
> > >   example of something where there is no actual serial number, but you can 
> > >   "identify" it automatically through its contents, and name it stably 
> > >   according to that. ]
> > 
> > That was such a silly thing to do, here's a script that does it, along
> > with the udev rule to add to udev.rules for it.  It names your cdrom
> > Artist_Title, and creates a symlink called cdrom that points to it, just
> > to be a tiny bit sane :)
> 
> Hey, this is funny.
> I couldn't resist to give it a try and we need a few changes:
> 
>   - it's %2c otherwise nearly all my CD's are "good", but sure I also have bad ones :)
>   - remove the node first, cause get_cddb() dies and leaves the old one there
>   - remove spaces in name, cause this is our separator

Doh, that's what I get for only trying it with a 1 word title cd, and
then adding error code after testing it...

Thanks, I've applied your fixes.

greg k-h


-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software.
Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering
advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms.
Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html
_______________________________________________
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