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Re: hotplug, udev and usbkey question



According to Rick Macdonald,
> John L Fjellstad wrote:
> 
> >Rick Macdonald <rickm@timshel.ca> writes:
> > 
> >
> >>Does udev (or any other part of this USB issue) need tmpfs? I saw this
> >>mentioned in one place but most don't mentioned it. I'm running 2.6.9.
> > 
> >
> >
> >It doesn't have to, but it's a nice thing to have.  Basically, using
> >tmpfs, you don't have to clean up /dev whenever you shutdown the system,
> >since it's just a tmpfs
> > 
> >
> OK, my understanding is that once this is all working and a camera or 
> other device is plugged in, it will always be available under a known 
> path regardless of the actual "device of the day", for example, 
> /dev/sda1 today and who knows what tomorrow.
> 
> What is this "known path" path and where does it get configured?
> 
> ...RickM...

/etc/udev/udev.rules



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