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

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

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 09:44:05PM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote:
> 
> I have a multiple memory card reader thing for USB with four slots. I'm
> using this currently in udev.rules:
> 
> # Iwill 6-in-1 memory card reader
> BUS="scsi", SYSFS_vendor="6-in-1  ", SYSFS_model="CF/MD           ", NAME="cf%n"
> BUS="scsi", SYSFS_vendor="6-in-1  ", SYSFS_model="SM              ", NAME="sm%n"
> BUS="scsi", SYSFS_vendor="6-in-1  ", SYSFS_model="SD/MMC          ", NAME="sd_mmc%n"
> BUS="scsi", SYSFS_vendor="6-in-1  ", SYSFS_model="MS              ", NAME="ms%n"
> 
> And it works, except that if there are no cards when I plug the reader
> in, no devices for partitions are created and apparently plugging in a
> memory card in the reader is not a hotplug event.
> 
> The manpage says to use NAME{all_partitions} to get all 15 partitions
> of a block device created, so I tried
> 
> BUS="scsi", SYSFS_vendor="6-in-1  ", SYSFS_model="CF/MD           ", NAME="cf%n{all_partitions}" 
> 
> and various other things, but all I was able to get was 
> 
> a) no device created
> b) /udev/cf{all_partitions} was created
> c) /udev/cf was created
> 
> So how is this really supposed to be used? Is it even a thing that could
> help me?

please try:

  BUS="scsi", SYSFS_vendor="6-in-1  ", SYSFS_model="CF/MD           ", NAME{all_partitions}="cf%n"


The attribute belongs to the NAME field not to a format char.
It's mentioned in the man page :)

thanks,
Kay


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