From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Darren Salt Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:21:05 +0000 Subject: Re: CD Symlinks Solution Idea Message-Id: <4E2B1C56AF%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> List-Id: References: <44677DD3.80801@jg555.com> In-Reply-To: <44677DD3.80801@jg555.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org I demand that Jim Gifford may or may not have written... [snip] > The point is that not everyone is worried about consistency, if they need a > specific drive associated, then they need to use the SYSFS rules and create > persistent naming. But for people who only have one cdrom. This is a simple > solution. Have a look in older versions of udev (try around 058) - you'll find my cdsymlinks script there. It'll work so long as /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info remains present *but* it's subject to device registration races, although I seem to be consistently getting hdd registered before hdc these days... -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Buy less and make it last longer. INDUSTRY CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING. I need all of your money. ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ 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