On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:37:05AM +0100, Dominik Kubla wrote:
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:09:57PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
I've released the 021 version of udev. It can be found at:
kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev-021.tar.gz
Nice work, but I ran into a problem on my Debian system and i did use
the udev-019 permissions file for Debian. What's the story here anyway?
Debian has a "official" package. I recommend you use that if you have a
Debian system.
I seem to be unable to assign group "cdrom" to my ATAPI DVD/CD-RW drive.
It appears to me that the permissions syntax is missing a possibility to
overide the owner/group based upon the class of the device.
Permissions are based on the name of the device.
Is there a way to distinguish between CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and writers? It is
not unusual these days to have at least a DVD-ROM and CD-Writer in a
desktop system. If you look at the latest offers from Dell you will see
that they tend to include a DVD-ROM and a DVD+RW drive in at least some
configurations. So it would be nice if udev would be able to create
links like "cdwriter", "dvd" and "dvdwriter" out of the box. (And assign
the appropriate group to the device nodes...)
You can do that, just name them differently based on the type of device.
Also, try providing a symlink to "cdrom" to not break what users are
expecting.