From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:52:44 +0000 Subject: Re: new version of udev has different cd/dvd devices Message-Id: <20060105175244.GB25288@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 09:34:02AM -0800, Patrick Mansfield wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:03:17AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > Exactly. The /dev/disk solution is now adopted by all distros that use > > udev, so there should not be any problems with this anymore. > > It does work but is unwieldly, dm and iscsi people have complained when > testing with many disks, I also find it unfriendly. Then propose an additional, friendly, way of doing things in a new subdir in /dev/disk to address these issues. I haven't heard of any complaints, why don't they make them on the linux-hotplug-devel mailing list where they might be listened to? :) > dm already has its own "workaround" to create fixed short (?) names based > on id/serial. Yeah, dm does it's own thing, separate from udev. But that's dm's issue, not udev's... 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