Re: 2.6.6/udev weirdness

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 07:55:09PM -0400, Russell Neches wrote:
> 
> On 2.6.5, I used the following udev rules:
> 
>   # Russell's Rules
>   BUS="scsi", SYSFS{model}="*JUMPDRIVE*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="jumpdrive"
>   BUS="scsi", SYSFS{model}="*iPod*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="ipod"
> 
> This allowed me to use these entries in /etc/fstab 
> 
>   /dev/jumpdrive  /mnt/jump       vfat    noauto,user     0       0
>   /dev/ipod       /mnt/ipod       vfat    noauto,user     0       0
> 
> This was very convenient, particularly with gnome-volume-manager and
> assorted other cool things in Gnome 2.6.  Indeed, this seems to be the
> whole point of the hotplug/udev/hal/dbus system, and when it works it's
> exceedingly cool. 
> 
> On 2.6.5, the symlinks created by the rules point as follows:
> 
>   /dev/jumpdrive -> sda1
>   /dev/ipod -> sdb2
> 
> Depending on attachment order, of course. Now, on 2.6.6, the same rules
> with the same hardware end up pointing thusly:
> 
>   /dev/jumpdrive -> sg0
>   /dev/ipod -> sg1
> 
> This is, ah, not particularly useful. I was under the impression that
> sysfs and udev were created explicitly to put a stop to the aimless
> wandering of devices in /dev. Now, I may have written stupid rules; if
> so, please enlighten me.

You wrote stupid rules :)

> I've tried several permutations, and the above
> is the only way I could obtain the desired results under 2.6.5, and
> under 2.6.6, I can't get /dev/jumpdrive to point to /dev/sda1 at all. 

Try disabling sg support if you don't want that.  Or just add the
following to your rules:
	KERNEL="sd*"

That should only make your names bind to the block devices, not the
other scsi devices.

> The likely stupidity of the above rules notwithstanding, the underlying
> behavior of the system changed, and my rules broke. That shouldn't
> happen, even if the rules are dumb. This is a Bad Thing. 

Um, dumb rules are a Bad Thing, nothing we can do here about that :)

thanks,

greg k-h


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