Bug 128827 – sys-fs/udev-0.89-r2 (and earlier) rules using deprecated '%e' option

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 131254
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Paul Taylor 2006-04-04 14:47:08 UTC]

At boot time, I'm getting the following warning message from udev:
   %e is deprecated, will be removed and is unlikey to work correctly. Don't use it.

Apparently %e was removed from the man page in udev-0.79, and comments in the udev-0.80 said:
   "The enumeration format character '%e' is deprecated and will be removed
    sometimes from a future udev version. It never worked correctly outside
    of udevstart, so we can't use it with the new parallel coldplug. A simple
    enumeration is as useless as the devfs naming scheme, just get rid of both
    if you still use it."

The affected rules are in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:
   ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*",            SYMLINK+="cdrom%e", GROUP="cdrom"
   ENV{ID_CDROM_CD_RW}=="?*",      SYMLINK+="cdrw%e"
   ENV{ID_CDROM_DVD}=="?*",        SYMLINK+="dvd%e"
   ENV{ID_CDROM_DVD_R}=="?*",      SYMLINK+="dvdrw%e"

These probably should be changed to %n as per floppy, pktcdvd etc. devices.

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-04-04 14:48:54 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127815 ***

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-04-04 15:07:54 UTC]

*** Bug 128830 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-05-25 03:37:36 UTC]

Fixing this dupes mess...

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-05-25 03:37:51 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131254 ***