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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 01:25:33 +0200
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 09:37:05 -0800
Mark Knecht <markknecht@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.mckinnon@gmail.com