https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717326 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717326#c0 Summary: USB devices are given names reserved for SCSI ones Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Factory Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: anixx@opensuse.org QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; ru; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SUSE/2.0.14-0.2.1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 The current Lanana devices list http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/device-list/devices.txt reserves sd* name for SCSI block devices, while USB devices should have name of the type ub*: USB block devices 0 = /dev/uba First USB block device 8 = /dev/ubb Second USB block device 16 = /dev/ubc Thrid USB block device But in openSUSE USB devices are actually assigned names in sd* range making automatic device type detection impossible or difficult. I faced this issue when making a patch for KDE3 that should detect removable media without hal and which is based on analysis of /proc/self/mounts entries. Thus the mtab backend thinks about USB drives as of hard disks. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.