Re: Simple Rule Now Broken in udev089

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

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:11:43PM +0000, Robert Kennedy wrote:
> >From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> >To: Robert Kennedy <amtor@hotmail.com>
> >CC: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> >Subject: Re: Simple Rule Now Broken in udev089
> >Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:45:15 +0200
> >
> >On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:49:43PM +0000, Robert Kennedy wrote:
> >>
> >> For awhile I have been using the following simple rule to create a
> >> persistent symlink for my removable CDRW burner:
> >>
> >> KERNEL="scd0", SYMLINK="cdrwiter"
> >>
> >> I placed this rule in 10-local.rules inside the /etc/udev/rules.d/
> >> directory.
> >>
> >> It used to work in previous version of udev but now it does not work.  
> >udev
> >> is still creating the /dev/scd0 node but not the /dev/cdwriter node.
> >>
> >> Any ideas on what might be happening.    Has anything changed in udev 
> >089?
> >
> >No, something like this works for me. But you should always use += to
> >add a new symlink to the list, otherwise you reset all earlier added
> >ones. Maybe there is a later rule that overwrites that one?
> >
> >Kay
> 
> Thanks for the tip Kay.  I tried changing the rule to:
> 
> KERNEL="scd0", SYMLINK+="cdwriter"
> 
> and then doing a udevstart but it did not work.  I still get a /dev/scd0 
> node but not a /dev/cdwriter node.  Very strange.    I only have this one 
> rule in 10-local.rules.  10-local.rules should be the first file processed 
> in /etc/udev/rules.d/

Are sure you have a scd* kernel device and not a sr*?
What does:
  ls -l /sys/block
show?

Kay


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