udev, hal, and usb mass storage.

Sjoerd Simons sjoerd at spring.luon.net
Mon Apr 19 04:50:42 PDT 2004


On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:11:00PM +0100, Anthony Metcalf wrote:
> I want to be able to use udev's funkyness and create a link from
> whatever device node (sda1, sdb1 etc) that the device is given to
> /dev/keyfob. So I created the rule and udev now reliably creates
> /dev/sda1 and /dev/keyfob as a link to sda1. This is good.

I do this the other way around. I have a rule to let udev create a
device named /dev/camera and create a compatibility symlink for the ``old
name'' 

This works fine, because then the name is static and the compatibilty
symlink is variable. 

  Sjoerd
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