Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>:

I have to remind that the /etc/devfsd.d/hardware bug, a
chown/chmod of the possibly unexisting /dev/.../generic,
is still unfixed. After reviewing the proposed patches, I
wrote a brand-new "hardware". The /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd
in it are symlinks to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 which is itself
a symlink, but are guaranteed [not] to exist and always
point to the right location. Tested under -1041/ia32,
including the 'generic' devices and rmmod <cd-driver>.


git-svn-id: http://www.rocklinux.org/svn/rock-linux/trunk@1602 c5f82cb5-29bc-0310-9cd0-bff59a50e3bc

Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
  - Alan Wylie: updated fetchmail
  - Mathieu Doidy: updated lftp (2.6.8) and added liferea
  - Dimitar Zhekov: bootdisk fixes
+                   devfsd 'hardware' rewrite
 
 *) 2003-10-17 (2.0.0-rc2 - 2.0.0-rc3)
 

package/base/devfsd/devfsd_hardware.txt

@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@
 # cd-rom
 
 # user/group and persmission for the cd and the corespondig generic device
-REGISTER ^((ide|scsi)/host[0-9]+/bus[0-9]+/target[0-9]+/lun[0-9]+)/cd EXECUTE chown root.users /dev/\1/cd /dev/\1/generic
-REGISTER ^((ide|scsi)/host[0-9]+/bus[0-9]+/target[0-9]+/lun[0-9]+)/cd EXECUTE chmod 664 /dev/\1/cd /dev/\1/generic
-
-# create the historic /dev/cdrom device to always point to the first CD-ROM
-REGISTER .*/.*/cd	EXECUTE		ln -s /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /dev/cdrom
-REGISTER .*/.*/cd	EXECUTE		ln -s /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /dev/dvd
+REGISTER ^(ide|scsi)/host[0-9]+/bus[0-9]+/target[0-9]+/lun[0-9]+/(cd|generic) PERMISSIONS root.users 0644
 
+# handle the historic /dev/cdrom device always pointing to the first CD-ROM
+REGISTER    ^(cdroms/cdrom0)$ 	EXECUTE		ln -s /dev/\1 /dev/cdrom
+REGISTER    ^(cdroms/cdrom0)$	EXECUTE		ln -s /dev/\1 /dev/dvd
+UNREGISTER  ^cdroms/cdrom0$	EXECUTE		rm -f /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd