Re: [gentoo-user] udev issue? (No /dev/cdroms/XXX on two machines)

[Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

Mark Knecht wrote:

>In my case the drives are there and working, but the /dev/ names are
>more old style.
>
>mark@lightning ~ $ ls /dev/cdr
>cdrom   cdrom1  cdrw    cdrw1
>mark@lightning ~ $ ls /dev/cdrom
>/dev/cdrom
>mark@lightning ~ $ ls -al /dev/cdrom
>lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Sep 27 00:52 /dev/cdrom -> hda
>mark@lightning ~ $ ls -al /dev/cdrom1
>lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Sep 27 00:52 /dev/cdrom1 -> hdb
>mark@lightning ~ $ ls -al /dev/cdrw
>lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Sep 27 00:52 /dev/cdrw -> hda
>mark@lightning ~ $ ls -al /dev/cdrw1
>lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Sep 27 00:52 /dev/cdrw1 -> hdb
>mark@lightning ~ $
>
>Everything is working except I'd have to change fstab to make it easy.
>Thought I'd ask if there was a known change about udev naming that I
>hadn't heard about.
>  
>

I am pretty sure this is intentional.  The /dev/cdroms/XXX syntax was 
"devfs" style, which is now dead.

See the devel list thread starting at:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/29504

Or the udev change log at:
http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/sys-fs/udev/ChangeLog

-Richard

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