> On 10/18/05, Chris Kuethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 18/10/05, Ray Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 09:00:16PM +0300, Antti Harri wrote: > > > > I have two USB printers, is there a way to assign > > > > a fixed device name instead of device name being > > > > assigned dynamically? If it's not possible at all, > > > > are there plans to implement it? > > > > > > If it's not possible at all, how does one go about implementing it? > > > > It's perfectly possible. I took few minutes yesterday afternoon to > > toss together a little perl script to mount my various USB drives > > correctly: > > * My iriver matches "umass\d.+ iRiver iRiver" and mounts on /iriver > > * My lexar jumpdrive matches "umass\d.+ LEXAR JUMPDRIVE" and mounts on > > /auto/jumpdrive > > * My FireLite external 80GB matches "umass\d.+ FireLite" and mounts on > > /auto/firelite > > * anything else is ignored. > > > > It's a little rough right now, and to add new devices and mountpoints > > you need to edit the script. I may tidy it up in the future to use a > > config file, but right now it works for me. To other writing such a > > script: use the device class and name passed to you by hotplugd, and > > fetch other bits of information from dmesg and usbdevs. > > > My apologies if I am confused here but that doesn't really answer the > original question, does it? I assume this solution will also work for the > other person but his question as framed was regarding assigning static > device names rather than determing the dynamically assigned device name.
Cut the rhetoric, Greg. Ted made it clear there is no solution. But Chris has supplied a workaround that is workable for at least some people. Now if you don't appreciate it when people help other people on this list, why don't you please disconnect yourself from the list. Why flame?
