From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 17:20:18 +0000 Subject: Re: shouldn't device names be "standardized"? Message-Id: <20041107172018.GA14218@wonderland.linux.it> List-Id: References: <418E53BA.1030501@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <418E53BA.1030501@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Nov 07, Kevan Rehm wrote: > Then I thought that maybe udev processes ALL matching rules, and so it > would produce names for each inserted rule plus the default rule and > then everyone would be happy, but this doesn't appear to be the case > (unless I misunderstand). Besides, there could still be collisions Yes. I think distributions should take some care with scripts which generate custom names, only use them to create symlinks (which can be provided by multiple rules) and always provide the standard names. Or at least, this is what I do in the debian package and so far looks like I have not annoyed too many users. > So it seems to me that it would be better to have some sort of standard > name for devices, sort of like the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, > where there are names that an application could trust would be present > on any Linux box it would care to run on. We do: http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/index.html . -- ciao, | Marco | [9037 os/gINppPck0w] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idU88&alloc_id065&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