From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:27:11 +0000 Subject: Re: new version of udev has different cd/dvd devices Message-Id: <20060105122711.GA8137@wonderland.linux.it> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="opJtzjQTFsWo+cga" List-Id: References: <43B313ED.40402@bl.com> In-Reply-To: <43B313ED.40402@bl.com> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Jan 04, Patrick Mansfield wrote: > > - there is no other component which=20 > ? Debian lacks something like /sbin/hwup of SuSE, so I need a lightweight self-contained solution. > A simple script that generates rules to create /dev's under (perhaps) > /dev/user that are the same as the current kernel name based on a match > with ID_SERIAL (of course handling name collisions and more) would be > useful. Users could then edit the rule file to create "nicer" names. We already have stable names in /dev/disk/ and I do not think we need more. What I need is a solution for the /dev/cdrom* symlinks. > - allow selection of policies, so for example, you can have by-id, > by-path, or user-named. So we don't always create by-id, by-path or > user-named. Why not? > How do you know if an attribute (mainly the id / serial number) for the > device is useful as a persistent attribute? Do you assume all are invalid, > valid, or what? You can't, each SUBSYSTEM needs to be special-cased. > Should or how do you integrate this into the installer? It is bad to *not* No (at least for Debian), because the installer does not need these devices and I have to support upgrades and new devices added after the initial installation. --=20 ciao, Marco --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDvRCfFGfw2OHuP7ERArj5AJ9dClijEl7FG0gD8oOgj7/XN7r8vwCfdq4P Xnns1t3RHIFK4d9Skf/Loo4= =L3Uh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&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