Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:53:41 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 021 release |
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On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:22:52AM +0100, Dominik Kubla wrote: > >Permissions are based on the name of the device. > > > > Oh, i realized that. But my point is: shouldn't they be based on the > CLASS of the device rather than the name? After all the names are > changeable, but the class is not... > > I checked the hotplug-devel archives and saw that somebody has already > posted a patch doing that. So i guess the question boils down to: > Will you accept it or not?
Ok, I'm convinced now. I just took a patch that does this.
> >>Is there a way to distinguish between CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and writers? It is > >>not unusual these days to have at least a DVD-ROM and CD-Writer in a > >>desktop system. If you look at the latest offers from Dell you will see > >>that they tend to include a DVD-ROM and a DVD+RW drive in at least some > >>configurations. So it would be nice if udev would be able to create > >>links like "cdwriter", "dvd" and "dvdwriter" out of the box. (And assign > >>the appropriate group to the device nodes...) > > > > > >You can do that, just name them differently based on the type of device. > >Also, try providing a symlink to "cdrom" to not break what users are > >expecting. > > Would you care to explain how to do it?
Is there some way that you can see in sysfs or in /proc that you can use to detect these devices differently?
thanks,
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