Devlabel 0.38.07 is available here.

* Added an ugly hack for weird hotpluggable hardware. Specifically, things like the "Pen Drive USB Flash Hard Drive" require an initial ioctl ping before Linux can do anything with them. Because of this, when the hotplug script called `devlabel restart`, devlabel was unable to yet see the device and would not create its symlink. Now, devlabel detects if it has been called by a hotplug agent, and if so, it issues a `devlabel status >/dev/null` right off the bat to act as this initial ping. Then, when the rest of the scripts get around to creating symlinks, everything works fine since the ping has occurred.

* Stopped using the readlink command since I didn't want a dependancy on tetex. Instead I wrote my own simple function which accomplishes the same thing.

By Gary at 04:11 PM in Linux | Comments (0)