From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:03:17 +0000 Subject: Re: new version of udev has different cd/dvd devices Message-Id: <20060105170316.GA1914@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <43B313ED.40402@bl.com> In-Reply-To: <43B313ED.40402@bl.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 01:27:11PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 04, Patrick Mansfield wrote: > > > > - there is no other component which > > ? > Debian lacks something like /sbin/hwup of SuSE, so I need a lightweight > self-contained solution. So do other distros :) > > 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. Exactly. The /dev/disk solution is now adopted by all distros that use udev, so there should not be any problems with this anymore. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- 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_idv37&alloc_id865&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