On 10/18/05, Chris Kuethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 18/10/05, Ray Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 09:00:16PM +0300, Antti Harri wrote: > > > I have two USB printers, is there a way to assign > > > a fixed device name instead of device name being > > > assigned dynamically? If it's not possible at all, > > > are there plans to implement it? > > > > If it's not possible at all, how does one go about implementing it? > > It's perfectly possible. I took few minutes yesterday afternoon to > toss together a little perl script to mount my various USB drives > correctly: > * My iriver matches "umass\d.+ iRiver iRiver" and mounts on /iriver > * My lexar jumpdrive matches "umass\d.+ LEXAR JUMPDRIVE" and mounts on > /auto/jumpdrive > * My FireLite external 80GB matches "umass\d.+ FireLite" and mounts on > /auto/firelite > * anything else is ignored. > > It's a little rough right now, and to add new devices and mountpoints > you need to edit the script. I may tidy it up in the future to use a > config file, but right now it works for me. To other writing such a > script: use the device class and name passed to you by hotplugd, and > fetch other bits of information from dmesg and usbdevs.
My apologies if I am confused here but that doesn't really answer the original question, does it? I assume this solution will also work for the other person but his question as framed was regarding assigning static device names rather than determing the dynamically assigned device name. Greg
