Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Mar 2004 10:44:44 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 021 release |
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On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:37:05AM +0100, Dominik Kubla wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:09:57PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > >I've released the 021 version of udev. It can be found at: > > kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-021.tar.gz > > Nice work, but I ran into a problem on my Debian system and i did use > the udev-019 permissions file for Debian. What's the story here anyway?
Debian has a "official" package. I recommend you use that if you have a Debian system.
> I seem to be unable to assign group "cdrom" to my ATAPI DVD/CD-RW drive. > It appears to me that the permissions syntax is missing a possibility to > overide the owner/group based upon the class of the device.
Permissions are based on the name of the device.
> 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.
thanks,
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