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From: Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 082 cdsymlinks
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:58:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d64a48980601271258o7c668a27xf734e7617db1f47@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d64a48980601261109s1d3013efu3ca6acf024f7df45@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/27/06, Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

The only solutions I've come up with require taking the scope outside
of udev.  Keeping this compatible, at a fairly generic, non-Yast'ed
level, seems to be impossible within udev.  It'd require some
execution after udev has finished, which then isn't that different
from a static /dev setup.


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-27 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-26 19:09 082 cdsymlinks Aaron Griffin
2006-01-26 19:16 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2006-01-26 20:27 ` Aaron Griffin
2006-01-26 23:24 ` Kay Sievers
2006-01-27 17:08 ` Darren Salt
2006-01-27 20:58 ` Aaron Griffin [this message]

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