From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 18:44:44 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 021 release Message-Id: <20040304184442.GH13907@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20040303000957.GA11755@kroah.com> <4046CE91.50701@kubla.de> In-Reply-To: <4046CE91.50701@kubla.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Dominik Kubla Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:37:05AM +0100, Dominik Kubla wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:09:57PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > >I've released the 021 version of udev. It can be found at: > > kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-021.tar.gz > > Nice work, but I ran into a problem on my Debian system and i did use > the udev-019 permissions file for Debian. What's the story here anyway? Debian has a "official" package. I recommend you use that if you have a Debian system. > I seem to be unable to assign group "cdrom" to my ATAPI DVD/CD-RW drive. > It appears to me that the permissions syntax is missing a possibility to > overide the owner/group based upon the class of the device. Permissions are based on the name of the device. > Is there a way to distinguish between CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and writers? It is > not unusual these days to have at least a DVD-ROM and CD-Writer in a > desktop system. If you look at the latest offers from Dell you will see > that they tend to include a DVD-ROM and a DVD+RW drive in at least some > configurations. So it would be nice if udev would be able to create > links like "cdwriter", "dvd" and "dvdwriter" out of the box. (And assign > the appropriate group to the device nodes...) You can do that, just name them differently based on the type of device. Also, try providing a symlink to "cdrom" to not break what users are expecting. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ 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