Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 15:38:26 +0200
From: Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@irc.pl>
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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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