Hotplug - how does it get the name?

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B Wooster" <bwooster47 at gmail.com>
To: <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com>
Cc: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: Hotplug - how does it get the name?


> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:12:01 -0600 (CST), Thomas Cameron
> <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:
>> > I'm trying to unravel the process by which my USB SB Card Reader gets
>> > a name in /media - when I plug in this device, I see /etc/fstab gets a
>> > new entry - /dev/sda1 with /media/CANON_DC as the mount point.
>> >
>> > The Reader is not a canon, though when I first installed Fedora FC3, I
>> > did plug in a Canon camera in the USB port.
>> >
>> > I'm trying to figure out if I can change the word "CANON_DC" to
>> > something else, am assuming that the string CANON_DC is stored in some
>> > config file, but have not been able to find it yet...
>> >
>> > Any help/pointers on where to look for this appreciated...
>>
>> I have no idea, but what if you do:
>>
>> grep -r CANON_DC /etc/*
>> Thomas
>
> Yup, this is what I tried (actually grep CANON_DC */* and then */*/* etc).
> That locked up my machine solidly - no keys accepted, only way out is
> to power cycle. No clue anywhere - no logs, etc as to why the kernel
> locked up.
> It is a two year old box, and I did upgrade the BIOS (the older BIOS
> would immediately hang the 2.6 kernel, worked fine with 2.4).
>
> So, I'm staying away from wide greps in /etc!
> Uname is:
> 2.6.10-1.760_FC3 #1 Wed Feb 2 00:14:23 EST 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Wow - what happens if you do this:

for i in find /etc -type f; do
  echo $i
  grep CANON_DC $i
done

That will tell you where it's hanging at least...

Thomas