On 12/14/05 06:44, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
3)
There is one kind of thing I cannot do in /etc/devfs.rules, creating
links. So I am still doing this in /etc/devfs.conf (links don't cause
race conditions anyway, I hope).
One would think that "link ttyU0 pilot" would simply be translated to
"ln -s /dev/ttyU0 /dev/pilot" which would simply create the link and it
would work as soon as a ttyU0 device (my PDA) is there. But instead it
checks weather the device exists (of course it doesn't since I didn't
press the hotsync button during boot) and omits the creation of the link.
Note that while for you it might be sufficient to have a hard coded link
from /dev/pilot to /dev/ttyU0, that is not necessarily the case if you
have multiple USB serial gadgets.
The way I handled it is by using an entry in /etc/usbd.conf:
#
# Fixup permissions for Palm Handheld ucom devices
# (set here and not in devfs.rules since we only want to apply
# the change to Palm com ports, not all USB com ports)
device "PalmHandheld"
devname "ucom[0-9]+"
vendor 0x0830
attach "/bin/chmod 0666 /dev/${DEVNAME} ; /bin/ln -s
/dev/${DEVNAME} /dev/pilot"
detach "rm -f /dev/pilot
Having said that, it would be great to be able to create links from
devfs.rules - I'd certainly use it for my /dev/cdrom entry!
Cheers,
/Johny
--
Johny Mattsson - Making IT work ,-. ,-. ,-. When all else fails,
http://www.earthmagic.org _.' `-' `-' Murphy's Law still works!
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