Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 09:37:05 -0800
> Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> 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
> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
>
>

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