Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 May 2005 15:38:26 +0200 | From | Tomasz Torcz <> | Subject | Re: OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog |
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On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 11:34:20AM +0200, Toon van der Pas wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 05:19:43PM +0800, Lincoln Dale (ltd) wrote: > > > But what you claim is simply impossible. > > > > wrong. again. > > > > look up the man page for udev(8), pay particular attention to the part > > that can tie devname into device serial number. > > take note of the example shown under 'serial'. > > These were my thoughts too. > But I just checked the entries in my sysfs tree for my CDRW drive, > and there is no serial number available...
Wild thouht - you can attach a camera pointing to device and use udev callout script, which will grab a picture by v4l and check color. It *is* possible in Linux.
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