Changeset 8536c02 for chapter07/symlinks.xml

Timestamp:

04/16/2007 07:34:38 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>

Branches:

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Children:

a728d16

Parents:

ce33e575

Message:

Upgrade to Udev-108. Fixes #1976.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8064 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter07/symlinks.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter07/symlinks.xml

@@ -24 +24 @@
     decide which of two modes of operation you wish to have the script use.</para>
 
-    <para>First, the script can operate in <quote>by-path</quote> mode, where
-    the rules it creates depend on the physical path to the CD or DVD device.
-    Second, it can operate in <quote>by-id</quote> mode, where the rules it
-    creates depend on identification strings stored in the CD or DVD device
-    itself. The path is determined by Udev's <command>path_id</command> script,
-    and the identification strings are read from the hardware by its
+    <para>First, the script can operate in <quote>by-path</quote> mode (used by
+    default for USB and FireWire devices), where the rules it creates depend on
+    the physical path to the CD or DVD device. Second, it can operate in
+    <quote>by-id</quote> mode (default for IDE and SCSI devices), where the
+    rules it creates depend on identification strings stored in the CD or DVD
+    device itself. The path is determined by Udev's <command>path_id</command>
+    script, and the identification strings are read from the hardware by its
     <command>ata_id</command> or <command>scsi_id</command> programs, depending
     on which type of device you have.</para>
@@ -70 +71 @@
     ID_REVISION. The <quote>by-path</quote> mode will use the ID_PATH value.</para>
 
-    <para>If you choose the <quote>by-path</quote> mode, then the rules files
-    installed by default with Udev will work. If you choose the <quote>by-id</quote>
-    mode, then you will have to modify the
+    <para>If the default mode is not suitable for your situation, then the
+    following modification can be made to the
     <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/75-cd-aliases-generator.rules</filename> file,
-    as follows:</para>
+    as follows (where <replaceable>mode</replaceable> is one of
+    <quote>by-id</quote> or <quote>by-path</quote>):</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>sed -i -e 's/write_cd_aliases/&amp; by-id/' \
+<screen><userinput>sed -i -e 's/write_cd_aliases/&amp; <replaceable>mode</replaceable>/' \
     /etc/udev/rules.d/75-cd-aliases-generator.rules</userinput></screen>