Peter Ennis wrote:
There are no Begin and End lines. Other sample scripts
in the book include them. Is there are reason for the difference?
Consistency with files with udev rules that the user is not supposed to
modify (i.e., the ones from the udev-config tarball). However, this can
be changed if the majority votes for it.
Anyway, let me introduce udev-100 first - it (unfortunately) has the
original non-educational CD-ROM rule generator in the recommended set of
rules. The voting suggestion above holds only if we decide to ignore it,
preferring Jim's viewpoint (in his opinion, a program that writes rules
for itself is wrong). I disagree with that opinion, but don't want to
force my disagreement upon others. Additionally, our work on showing the
users the two styles of persistent rules (identity persistence and
location persistence) is going to be lost if we adopt the stock generators.
If we decide to go with stock generator rules, something has to be done
with multiple network interfaces, because it is not nown which of them
will get eth0 on the first boot (but the name will be the same on all
subsequent reboots). Possible solutions:
* Defer network configuration until after the reboot
* Pre-seed the database of network interfaces in the same manner as we
do now, but only include sample rules based on MAC addresses and not on
PCI location.
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Alexander E. Patrakov
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