I'm playing with different tuners and have been thinking about the confusion of using mythtv with non-equivalent devices. And so I was thinking it would be nice to have something generate symlinks or something to provide device names that are a bit more specific than "video0", particularly since I may not be able to garuntee the order the devices are plugged in.
Do any of you have any experience with this sort of thing? Here's an nice example. I'm not entirely sure if the /dev/disk tree is generated by the kernel, hal, udev, or some weird combination. The point is, you get a canonical name which is specific to that particular device or partition. $ ls /dev/disk by-id by-label by-path by-uuid $ ls /dev/disk/by-id ata-IC25N080ATMR04-0_MRG489K4JT6LHH ata-IC25N080ATMR04-0_MRG489K4JT6LHH-part1 ata-IC25N080ATMR04-0_MRG489K4JT6LHH-part2 ata-IC25N080ATMR04-0_MRG489K4JT6LHH-part3 ata-IC25N080ATMR04-0_MRG489K4JT6LHH-part4 $ ls /dev/disk/by-label main spare _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
