[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-04-03, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 Apr 2013 20:46:37 Bruce Hill wrote:
>
>> Therefore, all's well that's still working! And AFAIR, on at least 2 of
>> those machines, the 70-persistent-net.rules was never something I did
>> manually.
>
> Right, it used to be auto-generated by udev scripts.  With udev-200 you are
> meant to remove it along with any other files from your /etc/udev/rules.d/

Huh?  I'm supposed to remove all the other rules files as well?

If we're not supposed to have user-defined rules, how do I do things
like get various USB/firewire devices named/symlinked properly so that
my backup drive gets mounted in the right spot, my oscilloscope SW can
find the right USB "serial" port, and so on...

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