Re: default udev rules

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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 04:42:59PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:18 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, if you edit some udev rules then your system will most likely
> > break in one way or another. Look at it this way, what do you think
> > would happen if a user changed any of these rules
> > 
> >   "KERNEL=="device-mapper", NAME="mapper/control"
> > 
> If udev rules are intended to be shared amongst all distributions, and
> not editable by users, that means device names will be fixed?
> 
> (Yay)
> 
> But surely that means cases where we need NAME= rules are now better
> fixed by fixing the kernel to give it the right name in the first place?

Where does the kernel not give the "right" name today?

thanks,

greg k-h
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