On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:50:06PM +0900, Nao Nishijima wrote: > Hi, > > Finally, I understood why this patch is not acceptable and would like to > solve the problem of the device name mismatch in *user space* using > udev. So, could you please give me your comment about it? > > I aim to unify the device name because the name shown in command output > is different from it that users use for command execution. > > So, I'd like to suggest that two new API should be added to udev. > - The API that returns any symlinks such as by-uuid, by id that users > selected before if a device name is given as arguments > If the commands directly access to proc filesystems, they cannot get > the symlinks. These commands should get the device name via this API. > - The API that replaces device name to symlink in text messages > The dmesg and syslog messages include the raw device names such as > sdX. They should be replaced with symlinks to unify the device names. > - udev support alias > Symlinks (by-uuid, by-id …) is too long, compared to before (e.g. > sdX). I guess most of users need more friendly and short names. > > Could you give me some advice or comments? > (I will post this idea udev mailing list with prototype code) Patches are always best to work off of, please post your changes to udev to the linux-hotplug list and we can take it from there. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
