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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] update on udev on /dev status
  • Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:08:45 -0800

Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
> Not sure, the problem is that we only know device names for devfs and
> udev, and the devfs change only involved /devices -> /dev rename, not
> changes like /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 -> /dev/hdd and the other way around. An
> additional problem is that with udev device naming is totally arbitrary,
> and i don't think we should force the user to use certain device names
> (i currently do this for tty devices, until i find a better way).

I think for the initial setup we should set the user's environment to the LSB
default. Perhaps we should ask them if they want to auto-convert those files,
a
la how init.d does it now making sure to tell them that it will use the
default
/dev layout (not devfs layout) before continuing.

-sandalle

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