From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kay Sievers" Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:28:21 +0000 Subject: Re: Call for Assistance - udev Message-Id: <3ae72650708241128j777f3438ta054c77b7d1dd328@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: References: <46CF2009.6030709@ums.usu.ru> In-Reply-To: <46CF2009.6030709@ums.usu.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On 8/24/07, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Greg Schafer wrote: > > Anyhoo, it seems the latest release (udev-115) finally installs something > > that looks like a sane default config. > > Do you really think this is sane? > > 1) Strange symlinks that never existed before: > KERNEL="null", SYMLINK+="XOR" Old ancient stuff. Mentioned in linux/Documentation/devices.txt > KERNEL="ram0", SYMLINK+="ramdisk" Recommended in devices.txt. > KERNEL="ram1", SYMLINK+="ram" Don't know. > KERNEL="lp[0-9]*", GROUP="lp" SYMLINK+="par%n" Don't know. > 2) Mismatch between /dev/random and /dev/urandom permissions: > KERNEL="...|random", MODE="0666" > KERNEL="urandom", MODE="0644" You can write to random to add entropy to the pool. I guess, you can't write to urandom. > 3) Syntax errors (missing comma, extra quote) > KERNEL="lp[0-9]*", GROUP="lp" SYMLINK+="par%n" > KERNEL="ht[0-9]*|nht[0-9]*", GROUP="disk"" I'll fix that now. Will probably just work though. :) Kay ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ 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