Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 047 release [u]

["Martin Schlemmer [c]" <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>]

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On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 18:08 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 18:44 +0200, Martin Schlemmer [c] wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 18:46 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 18:44 +0200, Martin Schlemmer [c] wrote: 
> > > > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:58 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Lots of changes here in this release, see the full changelog below.
> > > > > Highlights are:
> > > > > 	- massive change with the way udevd can now work.  See
> > > > > 	  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/6173 for
> > > > > 	  more details on this (Kay's changes are now part of udev
> > > > > 	  proper, you don't have to apply anything for this to work,
> > > > > 	  just follow the directions in
> > > > > 	  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/6192
> > > > > 	  to enable this mode.)
> > > > 
> > > > Any suggestions to determining the version of the installed udev?
> > > > This is now during startup, to see if we can make use of using
> > > > udevsend as hotplug agent.  If the system was up, udevinfo could
> > > > be used, but that is in /usr/bin that might be on a seperate /usr.
> > > > I know we might move udevinfo to /bin, but that might be an issue
> > > > for some, and adding a -V switch to /sbin/udev might be a better
> > > > choice if you do not have have any nit's against it ....
> > > 
> > > Good idea, we should do that. I've added it to my tree at:
> > >   http://vrfy.bkbits.net:8080/udev/
> > > 
> > > The next version will print:
> > >   [kay@pim udev.kay]$ /sbin/udev -V
> > >   048
> > > 
> > 
> > Another quick question ... why was the '-d' switch to udevinfo
> > removed?
> 
> The udev db is plaintext now. The -d option was for the binary tdb file,
> to get an idea whats in there.
> A dump is just a "cat /dev/.udevdb/*" now. :)
> 

Ah, ok, thanks.  Btw, using udevsend as hotplug agent seem to work
fine, although hal still do not recognise a flash drive if I have
udev renave the node to /dev/usbfd* ...

PS: you might need something like:

-----
--- udevinfo.c.orig     2004-12-13 21:15:49.000000000 +0200
+++ udevinfo.c  2004-12-13 21:16:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@

 static int process_options(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
-       static const char short_options[] = "adn:p:q:rsVh";
+       static const char short_options[] = "an:p:q:rsVh";
        int option;
        int retval = 1;
        struct udevice udev;
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@
        }

 help:
-       printf("Usage: udevinfo [-anpqrdVh]\n"
+       printf("Usage: udevinfo [-anpqrVh]\n"
               "  -q TYPE  query database for the specified value:\n"
               "             'name'    name of device node\n"
               "             'symlink' pointing to node\n"
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Thanks,

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Martin Schlemmer


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