On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 20:32 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > David Moore wrote: > > Yes, I think it was me who originally came up with this symlink script. > > See here: > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=240770 > > > So, to summarize the need of symlink rules: > > - We don't need symlinks (aliases) for application support, > neither type-oriented aliases, nor persistently named aliases. > > - Symlinks may be needed to fit the firewire device files into a > distro's file permissions scheme though. (This was actually the > intent behind redhat/40-redhat.rules, which wasn't apparent to > me when I read the rules files out of context.) > > Ergo, there may be distro-specific symlinks but applications/libraries > will not rely on any of those. (Right?) Yes, exactly right. -David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
