[KLUG Members] Re: sysfs, udev, hotplug

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> On the other hand, udev does nicely with plug-in devices. It can take a
> USB Mass Storage camera and create the same device node / permissions /
> name everytime, regardless of the SCSI number.

ALL HAIL THE KERNEL HACKERS!  This is wonderful news.  Using multilpe hot-plug
devices under 2.4.x is a bit of a bear as one need to always plug them in in the
same order for things like /etc/fstab entries to work correctly.  And if I have
my USB floppy plugged in when I boot it will take device /dev/SDA and my IDE
CD-ROM burner with SCSI emulation gets bumped and grip, etc.. barf.  Grrr.... 
Nice to know that situation will get better (assuming RH adopts this).