On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 09:37:05 -0800 Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now, my point is that change to /dev/srX was the root cause is FUD. It > isn't the root cause of this change because it didn't change on my > systems. All I know is that ID_PATH (from the old file) used to work > and no longer does. Whatever is responsible for creating that, likely > some portion of the kernel, changed the value and created a need to > modify how udev looks at the system. Is it a bug? I don't know. It's > just the way it is. It's not a bug as /dev/dvd is a mere convenience for the user - a nickname if you will. You are highly unlikely to find a standards doc of any kind stating the symlink should be there. Which means if it's not there, you get to make your own convenient nicknames. /dev/harddrive has never existed, right? Same with /dev/dvd and friends. make them if you want, but you can't expect them to be there and their absence is not a bug. Obviously someone left them out of the rules files. Maybe they had a reason, maybe they got lazy. Either way you get to add your own rules to get the names YOU want. It really is as simple as that, don't overthink this one. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
