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

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:50:56AM -0800, patman@aracnet.com wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:52:44AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > 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
> 
> That was kind of what I'm doing on this thread. So, use /dev/disk/user
> instead of /dev/user.

"by-user" perhaps?  Ick, I really don't like user specific things :)

> > complaints, why don't they make them on the linux-hotplug-devel mailing
> > list where they might be listened to?  :)
> 
> Because you'd flame them back to dm-devel ;-)

Nah, am I that harsh?

> > > 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...
> 
> Yes, but they should be using udev. 

That's for them to decide to use or not.

> Can't you NAK or flame their kernel code? :-(

I try to stay away from dm code if I can help it :)

> [hopefully i can send email to the list via this address ...]

This list accepts email from non-subscribers just fine, only thing it
doesn't like is the normal sf.net spam tests, and html email.

thanks,

greg k-h


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