Am 25.04.2017 um 16:09 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > Hi, > > On 2017-04-25 12:14:30 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 25.04.2017 um 10:53 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > [...] >>> In particular, it is strange that all the symlinks point to sr0 >>> except cdrw, which now points to sr1. >> >> The udev rules responsible for creating those symlinks is >> /lib/udev/rules.d/80-debian-compat.rules or >> >> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/tree/debian/extra/rules/80-debian-compat.rules#n18 >> >> See the comment in there: >> >> # These rules will create symlinks for CD/DVD drives, to help old >> # programs which are unable to automatically discover the devices. >> # The first detected device gets the symlink, but this is not stable across >> # reboots. >> >> So, yes, what you see can happen depending on the order devices are >> discovered. > > OK, but if sr0 is discovered first, then it should have all the > symlinks, and if sr1 is discovered first, then it should have all > the symlinks. But why do I get sr1 for only one of them? > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2017-04-24 10:05:16 cdrom -> sr0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2017-04-24 10:05:16 cdrw -> sr1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2017-04-24 10:05:16 dvd -> sr0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2017-04-24 10:05:16 dvdrw -> sr0 > > And why isn't there the same rule for cdrom?
I guess every sr0 can be considered a cdrom, but it's not necessarily a
dvd/cd writer.
> /lib/udev/rules.d/80-debian-compat.rules contains:
>
> # These rules will create symlinks for CD/DVD drives, to help old
> # programs which are unable to automatically discover the devices.
> # The first detected device gets the symlink, but this is not stable across
> # reboots.
> ENV{ID_CDROM_CD_RW}=="?*", \
> PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'ln -s %k /run/udev/link.cdrw 2>/dev/null; [ `readlink
> /run/udev/link.cdrw` = %k ]", \
> SYMLINK+="cdrw", OPTIONS+="link_priority=-100"
> ENV{ID_CDROM_DVD}=="?*", \
> PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'ln -s %k /run/udev/link.dvd 2>/dev/null; [ `readlink
> /run/udev/link.dvd` = %k ]", \
> SYMLINK+="dvd", OPTIONS+="link_priority=-100"
> ENV{ID_CDROM_DVD_RW}=="?*", \
> PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'ln -s %k /run/udev/link.dvdrw 2>/dev/null; [ `readlink
> /run/udev/link.dvdrw` = %k ]", \
> SYMLINK+="dvdrw", OPTIONS+="link_priority=-100"
>
> but /lib/udev/rules.d/60-cdrom_id.rules contains:
>
> KERNEL=="sr0", SYMLINK+="cdrom", OPTIONS+="link_priority=-100"
60-cdrom_id.rules is a rules provided by upstream,
80-debian-compat.rules a Debian specific file which we provide for
compat reasons.
I don't remember the details of 80-debian-compat.rules, but it's rather
ugly and it's maybe time to drop that hack early in the buster release
cycle.
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