On 10/18/05, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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? >
Sorry, man, I didn't intend to flame. I was just trying to get my head around the original issue as I'm not a developer, that's why I started it with "My apologies if I am confused here" to avoid the appearance of a flame. I just wanted to understand better what's possible and not possible. Again, my apologies to Chris and the list, Greg
