Re: 082 cdsymlinks

[Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>]

I demand that Kay Sievers may or may not have written...

[snip]
> o Or make it automatically write rules for new devices and assign them a
>   new name. That way you get at least everytime the same name, even when
>   hardware of the same class is removed from the system which would break
>   any simple enumeration.

... for some values of "break".

I'm thinking now, given your insistence on generated rules, that perhaps a
sequence number which does nothing more than provide the order in which the
devices should be numbered would be a Good Thing. That way, assuming
hdcÍrom and hddÍrom1 and there are no other cdrom* devices, physically
removing hdc would cause hdd to become cdrom after the next reboot - but hdb
would become cdrom2 regardless (even though this Just Feels Wrong), unless
the system was told that hdc was permanently gone.

This is a matter of compatibility: there are programs and libraries which do
things such as check only /dev/cdrom or default to /dev/cdrom: the VideoCD
input module in xine-lib defaults to /dev/cdrom, and its DVD input module
defaults to /dev/dvd.

Feel free to submit patches :->

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