On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 12:43 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Usually people want to know how to make udev recognize > devices. I have a device that is recognized just fine, but > I'd really like to declare it an un-device. I don't > want any /dev/ files created for it, I don't want the > driver loaded unless something else needs it. I want > it to disappear from creation completely. > > Can custom udev rules do this? Not specifically - ignore_device used to do something like this but we removed that directive from udev... and even if we still had the ignore_device directive, suppressing events at the udev level is wrong.. and that's why we removed ignore_device. > Specifically, the device is the incredibly annoying fake CD > drive that appears along side my usb hard disk > when I plug it in. One way to make such annoying drives disappear in GNOME and some other desktop environments is to set the UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE (or if you are on an older distro than F13 vintage, it's called DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE) udev property like e.g. this http://cgit.freedesktop.org/udisks/tree/data/80-udisks.rules#n188 Another way to solve this is adding an entry to something like one of the unusual_* files under drivers/usb/storage in the kernel... but that includes recompiling the kernel. HTH, 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
