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That sort of defies the allure of running Linux to begin with

That sort of defies the allure of running Linux to begin with

Posted Aug 13, 2008 8:21 UTC (Wed) by walters (subscriber, #7396)
In reply to: That sort of defies the allure of running Linux to begin with by pr1268
Parent article: Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer 

Out of curiosity, have you ever *really* spent time optimizing your udev rules?

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Spent time optimizing udev rules

Posted Aug 13, 2008 15:06 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (guest, #24648) [Link]

Out of curiosity, have you ever *really* spent time optimizing your udev rules?

As a matter of fact, I have hacked some of the *.rules files in the rules.d udev directory in order to eliminate extraneous/unneeded symlinks in /dev. But, after re-reading the article and gathering others' thoughts from their comments, I'm unsure now whether this "optimizing" is related to the article's point.

As for elanthis's comment below: chill out, dude! I didn't mean to strike a nerve. While I stand firm with my assertion that end-user choice was/is amongst my reasons for using Linux, I will concede that my original comment was short-sighted and reactionary. I blame my thoughts about lack-of-choice on leftover resentments over the Jörg Schilling/Cdrtools debacle. I'm sorry for projecting that frustration on the udev developers.

That sort of defies the allure of running Linux to begin with

Posted Aug 13, 2008 16:12 UTC (Wed) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link] 

Doesn't everybody? On any computer with more than one network interface, I use custom udev
rules to give each one a explanatory name ("inside" and "outside" for firewalls, "wireless"
and "wired" for my laptop, etc; the default rules make the names persistent, but you still
have to remember which is which). I've also used rules to do different things with different
USB devices that would otherwise all be undifferentiated CDC-ACM devices.

That sort of defies the allure of running Linux to begin with

Posted Aug 13, 2008 22:21 UTC (Wed) by kruemelmo (guest, #8279) [Link] 

I tried to create a working automatic /dev/tape symlink on debian etch. For an hour or so. I
was unsuccessful although I followed the manual. After reading this article, I suspect the
optimized debian rules are the cause which spots that the rules may be more elegant, but the
documentation for them was not findable.

That sort of defies the allure of running Linux to begin with

Posted Aug 18, 2008 23:00 UTC (Mon) by jlokier (guest, #52227) [Link] 

Not optimising, but I have had to fix the occasional bug when it failed to detect a filesystem
or something.


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