On Wednesday 14 July 2010 22:12:32 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 July 2010 09:58:02 Stéphane Guedon wrote: > >> I agree with you, but I like to make things in order with the rules > >> (without relation to udev). > >> > >> But I don't like udev, its syntax is really hard to understand for user > >> ! > > > > Dale, here's your chance to jump in and comment. > > > > This user *obviously* never had to deal with hal. > > Oh crap. You mean udev uses xml config files too? Well, at least udev > hasn't broke my keyboard and mouse. lol I don't have to much trouble > with udev. Heck, the one time I did, I deleted all the config files and > re-emerged the thing. Worked great then. I think one got messed up > somehow. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
No, not XML. It uses something MUCH better. It uses this: $ cat rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules # This file was automatically generated by the /lib64/udev/write_cd_rules # program, probably run by the cd-aliases-generator.rules rules file. # # You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single line # and set the $GENERATED variable. # DVD+-RW_AD-7640A (pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:0:0) ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:0:0", SYMLINK+="cdrom", ENV{GENERATED}="1" ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:0:0", SYMLINK+="cdrw", ENV{GENERATED}="1" ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:0:0", SYMLINK+="dvd", ENV{GENERATED}="1" ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:1f.1-scsi-0:0:0:0", SYMLINK+="dvdrw", ENV{GENERATED}="1" # Mass_Storage (pci-0000:00:1d.0-usb-0:2:1.2-scsi-0:0:0:0) SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="HUAWEI_Mass_Storage-0:0", SYMLINK+="cdrom1", ENV{GENERATED}="1" See how fantastic this is? See how this conforms to The One True (Unix) Way? See how it looks nothing like XML (invented by a Windows user, obviously), and actually looks a lot like perl with regexes? On second thoughts, it looks nothing like perl. There aren't enough $, @ and % symbols in it. But the regex bit stands. :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com