Seeking Remedy for udev Confusion

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 23:23 -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
> Hi, list,
> 
> I'll readily concede that I'm not always the brightest light bulb in
> the chandelier, so can y'all recommend your favorite udev
> demystification documents so I can try to get my head around it? My
> immediate desire is to have my SD cards recognized and mounted
> automatically (on Slamd64, a 64-bit Slackware), but my ultimate desire
> is to understand how to make udev DTRT, or perhaps simply to grasp what
> The Right Thing (c) is.

How far have you got? I am at the point of
understanding /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty, which is where you
would put the various bits that do as you want. This directory contains
files that each contain an xml definition that uses tags for your
device. The tags are those listed by lshal. You can control mount
points, mount options, and I am sure other things in these files.

Is this what you mean?

I have a few unresolved issues with this setup in that it does not act,
IMO, in a consistent fashion. But I am guessing it is more to do with
understanding the xml tag usage than any system problems ;-)

BTW, this is from a SUSE POV. I do not know how generic it is. HAL is,
of course. But I do not know about the directory and files to control
things. HAL, being new, could be the same on all platforms. But, I have
been there before.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer
OPQ Systems AB