Bugfixes only, release on Friday the 30th.

Paul Fox pgf at brightstareng.com
Mon Jun 26 18:49:45 UTC 2006


 > > I think the $MDEV variable is not so necessary (if you want to shrink
 > > the code a little), since the $DEVPATH var is already passed to the
 > > command executed and can be used to get the actual device name by
 > > removing the prefix.
 > 
 > DEVPATH is only set for hotplug events, not scanning with mdev -s.  It also 
 > turns "ln -s $MDEV cdrom" into "ln -s `echo $DEVPATH | sed 's at .*/@@'` cdrom" 
 > which is a lot clumsier.

i know this is a detail in the greater scheme of this thread, but
if you're using ash, then this:
    ln -s ${DEVPATH##*/} cdrom 
is pretty painless.  doesn't work in msh, i'm afraid.

paul
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