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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: feature request (if possible): symlink name in environment
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:11:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103641892.5845.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041221150258.GB14897@cirrus.madduck.net>

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 16:02 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> I am not sure this is possible, but if it is...
> 
> Would you consider making the name of any symlinks to be added to
> a device available in the environment (e.g. a :-separated list in
> $SYMLINKS), when the /dev/dev.d hooks are called?
> 
> This would allow me to write a hook for permissions.d, making it
> optional and still supporting all it should be able to do.

Use udevinfo in the dev.d/ script and ask with the DEVPATH for the
symlinks:

  [kay@pim ~]$ udevinfo -r -q symlink -p /class/video4linux/video0
  /dev/camera0 /dev/kamera0 /dev/videocam0 /dev/webcam0 

Kay



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  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-21 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-21 15:02 feature request (if possible): symlink name in environment martin f krafft
2004-12-21 15:11 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2004-12-21 15:38 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-21 16:04 ` Greg KH
2004-12-21 16:08 ` martin f krafft
2004-12-21 17:36 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-21 17:48 ` martin f krafft

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