On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 09:37:05 -0800 > Mark Knecht <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > >
Alan, While I don't completely disagree with your POV, let's at least agree that it is nothing other than your POV. I have a different one, but as it's mine it's clearly of little interest or value. I really don't see why I'm the one getting banged on here but that's life sometimes. I saw a problem for a couple of months. It frustrated me but not enough to do anything about it. Solving it finally bubbled up high enough on my list that I finally asked if others were having the same problem. (which they were, and which they also considered a problem) Before anyone had actually answered me I had posted one way that folks who cared could fix it. I thought I was doing the community a small service by getting a little bit of technically positive info out there. I guess not in this case. Sorry for wasting bandwidth. I suspect it's time for me to unsubscribe and just read gentoo-user in a list somewhere. Sad, but flotsam & jetsam I suppose... Over an out, Mark
