how to automatically create symlinks named /dev/cdrom?

how to automatically create symlinks named /dev/cdrom?

[Norbert Kiesel]

Hi,

started using udev and came across a problem I could not solve in
a satisfactory way: I'd like to get my symlinks /dev/cdrom and
/dev/dvd back.  For now I added two lines to links.conf (btw, where
is its file format documented?) like "L hdc cdrom", but this of course
breaks as soon as the cdrom moves around. man pages and googleing
did not help.

What I'm looking for is a rule stating: "whenever a media capable of
playing audio CDs (or reading ISO-9660 data CDs) shows up, generate
a symlink named cdrom within udev root to it". Analogous for DVD.

Currently I personally don't care that the above is broken as soon as
the second of a kind shows up because I don't have a machine with 2
CD drives :-) But I could imagine either picking just the first or
picking the "best" cdrom (using e.g. "speed" or user-provided data
like "First pick is the Pioneer CD-ROM, else the CD-RW").

so long
	Norbert



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Re: how to automatically create symlinks named /dev/cdrom?

[Marco d'Itri]

On May 09, Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel@tbdnetworks.com> wrote:

> started using udev and came across a problem I could not solve in
> a satisfactory way: I'd like to get my symlinks /dev/cdrom and
> /dev/dvd back.  For now I added two lines to links.conf (btw, where
> is its file format documented?) like "L hdc cdrom", but this of course
It's not, it's a debian-specific thing which is documented to be
undocumented and unsupported.

Anyway, this issue is being discussed in #247179, patches are welcome.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug$7179

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Marco | [6178 suSAMVy6d6G3k]


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