Udev issues in today's coming rawhide

[Olivier Galibert]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:58:49PM +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Olivier Galibert wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 11:55:02PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> >
> >>We're attempting to fix a problem in udev where /dev/cdrom creation is a
> >>race between multiple optical devices in a system.  To work around this
> >>we will enumerate the devices as /dev/cdrom-hdc or /dev/cdrom-hdb.
> >>However for compatibility reasons, we'll still create a /dev/cdrom, and
> >>the last device found wins the race.
> >
> >
> >And no /dev/cdrom1, etc.  Compatibility is for the weak, I presume?
> 
> enumeration is not possible anymore... we should now have 
> /dev/cdrom-{devname}

I hadn't realized my processor wasn't able to count anymore.  I'm not
sure I want to upgrade to fc5 if it can't do basic arithmetic.  Or
testing whether symlink(2) returns -EEXIST in a loop.

Someone could explain me the point of /dev/cdrom-{devname} when you
can use /dev/{devname} directly?

  OG.