Re: NAME{all_partitions}, how does it work?

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 07:02, Anssi Saari wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 09:19:50PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> > please try:
> > 
> >   BUS="scsi", SYSFS_vendor="6-in-1  ", SYSFS_model="CF/MD           ", NAME{all_partitions}="cf%n"
>  
> Thanks, it works now.
>  
> > The attribute belongs to the NAME field not to a format char.
> > It's mentioned in the man page :)
> 
> Yes, I misunderstood the part saying this:
> 
> The NAME field given with the attribute NAME{all_partitions} will  create
> all 15 partitions of a blockdevice.  This may be useful for removable
> media devices.
> 
> I actually thought the NAME{all_partitions} referred to the device
> name I had chosen. This was supported by the next part in the manpage,
> "The NAME ,SYMLINK and PROGRAM fields support simple printf-like string
> substitution".

I sent a patch to the list, with the hope that it's better to understand
now. I've also added a example to udev.rules.examples.

thanks for pointing it out,
Kay



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