Re: The Next Generation

[Roman Kagan <rkagan@mail.ru>]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:41:41PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> I've changes the HOTPLUG key to be able to read a whole subdirectory
> with a wildcard instead of only one file. The following three rules will
> emulate the dev.d/ directory handling we currently have compiled in:
> 
>   HOTPLUG="/etc/dev.d/%D/*.dev"
>   HOTPLUG="/etc/dev.d/%S/*.dev"
>   HOTPLUG="/etc/dev.d/default/*.dev"

Given that this is a compatibility stuff, can't it be handled
externally, without bloating udev?  E.g.

HOTPLUG="/usr/bin/run-parts /etc/dev.d/default"

or even simply

HOTPLUG="sh -c 'for f in /etc/dev.d/default/*.dev; do [ -x \$f ] && \$f; done'"

Another suggestion is of a syntactic sugar kind: would it be too hard to
implement key substitution in actions with a generic syntax, rather than
adding %-conversion specifier for each possible substitution, e.g.

HOTPLUG="foo $SUBSYSTEM $SYSFS{bar} $ENV{baz}"

Cheers,
  Roman.


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