Eric Sandeen writes:
> Ok, before you flame me for hitting this topic _again_, I understand
> that there are many problems with links like /dev/cdrom and /dev/mouse.
> But right now our biggest problem is users mailing the linux-xfs list
> after they use our installer, complaining "Hey! There's no /dev/cdrom
> or /dev/mouse!" :)
>
> So I thought I'd embark on an experiment of making /dev/cdrom show up
> automagically if that's what the user really wants. The other
> constraint I've imposed upon myself is to do it from within the devfsd
> package, rather than relying on initscripts, so that our installer
> doesn't have to contain another modified version of a standard Red Hat
> package (initscripts) that will break if they upgrade from Red Hat.
Talk to Tom Duffy and Jeremy Brown over in building #30. I talked to
them about this just under two weeks ago when I visited.
> One more quick question - why does X in /dev/cdroms/cdromX get
> incremented each time the ide-cd module is reloaded? Is that the
> expected behaviour?
Known problem. It's due to an incementing counter. I'll be submitting
a fix.
Regards,
Richard....
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