On 07/01/13 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > <SNIP> >> >> I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a >> good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it >> was. The new devices for CD/DVDs is /dev/sr*. I don't have, and have >> not had, /dev/cdrom or dvd on this rig for a good while and it works. I >> think this happened about the same time as the hard drive devices were >> changed from hd* to sd* even for old IDE drives. Since it was changed >> on purpose, I don't believe this is a bug. >> >> Dale > > > Might be true but how about digging up some references that this was > done on purpose. It makes little sense to me that if someone did this > on purpose, breaking lots of old scripts, leaving broken udev rules > laying about and just assuming everyone would figure it out without so > much and a news item then I'd say it was done pretty badly. > > Again, if it truly was 'on purpose' as you say then that's OK, but > let's not create too much false history here. In my mind it's just as > reasonable that it's just a mistake or someone that was overlooked, > but I'm totally open to you showing us what we all missed. > Seems like the cabal has been busy again ... its not a bug but a feature!
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commit;h=19b66dc57cce27175ff421c4c3a37e4a491b9c01 Also some hits on gentoo forums etc which imply that when actually merged, the rules file was not included.. This did happen awhile back and I just moved to /dev/sr0 and got on with life so didnt go into it in too much detail. BillK
