On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Robert Milasan <rmila...@suse.com> wrote: > just notice that in newer version of systemd-udev (195) write_cd_rules > and 75-cd-aliases-generator.rules have been dropped. Can anybody give > me the commit for that (tried to find it, but didn't)?
None of the "rule generator stuff" was ported to systemd. This facility created far more problems than it ever solved. Many people ended up with unsolvable problems, network interfaces names like rename3, or with rules files with 1000s of dead entries. It did not work properly for virtualization, and and and ... We just need admit today that it was a big mistake to ever try to write system config from hotplug handlers. We should have dropped that misguided thing much earlier. In short: we tried to be smart, but it turned out, we are not smart enough to fulfill the promise. So we finally killed it, and it will not come back. > Also shouldn't we add a > default /dev/dvd, /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrw, /dev/dvdrw for the primary > cd/dvd drive? > > I'm asking this because apps like VLC are trying always to > read /dev/dvd to play DVD and in some cases some users don't know > that /dev/sr0 or /dev/cdrom is that same thing. Because these links make the most sense when we support multiple drives, and as mentioned above, we don't want to support any kind of stateful rules anymore. We just do the absolute minimum today, and that is /dev/cdrom. People actually asked to remove /dev/dvd link we created in the initial code, to not make any promises anymore, and not make it look like multiple devices are supported: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=19b66dc57cce27175ff421c4c3a37e4a491b9c01 Your rules look fine, but we don't want to add them upstream, we just provide the absolute minimum these days, and people should fix their apps to query for devices, or add custom (or the distribution does) rules to support legacy requirements. Kay _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
