Re: new version of udev has different cd/dvd devices

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 09:18:40AM -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:36:29PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> 
> | On Dec 29, Phil Howard <phil-linux-hotplug-devel@ipal.net> wrote:
> | 
> | > What is recommended to use in place of udevstart for initial populating?
> | Look at the many distribution-specific scripts which walk sysfs and poke
> | the uevent files.
> 
> So basically there isn't anything in udev?

No, not in the tree. It's about a few lines of shell script.

> Since I'm writing in C, I suspect udevstart would be more meaningful.

Udevstart is dead and will stay as it is, until it will be removed at
the time the "uevent" file triggers are common and udevstart is no longer
needed.

> One thing I'd need to explore is parsing issues for sysfs data.  But
> how scripts would parse it could be different than what might be done
> in C.

Ubuntu has "udevplug" which is in C, Fedora has patched udevd to to do
the "uevent" file triggers. For SUSE, I'm perfectly fine with the shell
script as it is the most flexible and best to tweak and debug option for
me. We will see if we end in a common solution some day.

> The first need for /dev will be long before the system could
> run a shell.

That's just plain wrong.

Kay


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