Package: udev
Version: 0.070-2
Severity: minor

Hi,

udev has every right to name the cdroms this way, but i think
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 Oct  5 22:46 /dev/cdrom -> scd1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 Oct  5 22:47 /dev/cdrom1 -> scd0
is confusing. scd0 has scsi id 2, scd1 is id 3 on the same channel.

A possible reason is the naming in cd-aliases.rules:
ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*",            SYMLINK+="cdrom%e"

The man page warns against %e, because the naming gets timing dependent.
Maybe scd1 answers first to the cdrom_id (or another) request? I don't 
even know if the links will be swapped after a reboot.

Of course i found %n, but that would make a cdrom0, wouldn't it? Do i 
have to involve external programs or static rules to solve this common 
problem? 

-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/udev/rules.d/:
/etc/udev/rules.d/:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 20 Oct  5 01:48 020_permissions.rules -> 
../permissions.rules
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 19 Oct  5 01:48 cd-aliases.rules -> ../cd-aliases.rules
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 13 Oct  5 01:48 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 19 Oct  5 01:48 z20_persistent.rules -> 
../persistent.rules
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 12 Oct  5 01:48 z50_run.rules -> ../run.rules
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 19 Oct  5 04:32 z60_alsa-utils.rules -> 
../alsa-utils.rules
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 17 Oct  5 01:48 z70_hotplugd.rules -> ../hotplugd.rules

-- /sys/:
/sys/block/fd0/dev
/sys/block/hda/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda1/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda2/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda5/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda6/dev
/sys/block/ram0/dev
/sys/block/ram1/dev
/sys/block/ram10/dev
/sys/block/ram11/dev
/sys/block/ram12/dev
/sys/block/ram13/dev
/sys/block/ram14/dev
/sys/block/ram15/dev
/sys/block/ram2/dev
/sys/block/ram3/dev
/sys/block/ram4/dev
/sys/block/ram5/dev
/sys/block/ram6/dev
/sys/block/ram7/dev
/sys/block/ram8/dev
/sys/block/ram9/dev
/sys/block/sr0/dev
/sys/block/sr1/dev
/sys/class/input/event0/dev
/sys/class/input/event1/dev
/sys/class/input/mice/dev
/sys/class/misc/agpgart/dev
/sys/class/misc/hpet/dev
/sys/class/misc/psaux/dev
/sys/class/misc/rtc/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg0/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg1/dev
/sys/class/sound/audio/dev
/sys/class/sound/dsp/dev
/sys/class/sound/dspW/dev
/sys/class/sound/midi/dev
/sys/class/sound/mixer/dev
/sys/class/sound/sequencer/dev
/sys/class/sound/sequencer2/dev
/sys/class/sound/timer/dev

-- Kernel configuration:


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (850, 'testing'), (800, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii  hotplug                  0.0.20040329-25 Linux Hotplug Scripts
ii  initscripts              2.86.ds1-2      Standard scripts needed for bootin
ii  libc6                    2.3.5-6         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libselinux1              1.26-1          SELinux shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                 3.0-5           Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip
ii  makedev                  2.3.1-78        creates device files in /dev
ii  sed                      4.1.2-8         The GNU sed stream editor

udev recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information


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