Re: persistent CD symlinks

2006-05-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Archaic wrote: If location persistence is agreed upon, then I prefer this method. However, I prefer device persistence personally. For network devices, device persistence is already in the book. Of course one could implement location persistence instead :) ACTION=="add", BUS=="pci", ID=="000

Re: persistent CD symlinks

2006-05-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: +1, because I don't believe in educational value with udev. For most of BLFS editors, it's a black box. Editors just expect someone to configure udev properly, so that they don't have to think about it. Unfortunately, udev is one of the packa

Re: persistent CD symlinks

2006-05-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Archaic wrote: ACTION=="add", BUS=="ide", ID=="1.1", SYMLINK+="cdrom1" However, this isn't device persistence. This is location persistence. Not a bad thing by any means, but it must be agreed that location persistence is sufficient if we are to use this. ACTION=="add", ENV{ID_MODEL}=="PHIL

Re: persistent CD symlinks

2006-05-14 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: +1, because I don't believe in educational value with udev. For most of BLFS editors, it's a black box. Editors just expect someone to configure udev properly, so that they don't have to think about it. Unfortunately, udev is one of the packages that _require_ compl

Re: persistent CD symlinks

2006-05-14 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jim Gifford wrote: There is one more solution, which will prevent all udev issues altogether. Going to MAKEDEV. +1, because I don't believe in educational value with udev. For most of BLFS editors, it's a black box. Editors just expect someone to configure udev properly, so that they don't ha

Re: persistent CD symlinks

2006-05-14 Thread Archaic
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 10:29:30PM -0700, Jim Gifford wrote: > There is one more solution, which will prevent all udev issues > altogether. Going to MAKEDEV. I fail to see how that cooresponds to anything I said. This thread is about persistence with udev, not udev vs. MAKEDEV. Please provide com

Re: persistent CD symlinks

2006-05-14 Thread Jim Gifford
There is one more solution, which will prevent all udev issues altogether. Going to MAKEDEV. http://people.redhat.com/nalin/MAKEDEV -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page