Re: new release of udev?

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

On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:59:28AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On May 20, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Why not? I think it's a very reasonable request. Different people have
> > > different ideas about /dev.
> > 
> > Well I still don't see a real need for this. Anyway, what about some
> > "final assignments" instead:
> >   GROUP:="mygroup" or
> >   SYMLINK:="mylink"
> > would set the value unchangeable for later rules. That may give us finer
> > grained control and if you leave the permissions alone with your
> > user-rule you still get the systems default.
> 
> I don't get it... Now you invented a third kind of assignment, and you
> say that all this is simpler to use and to understand than just
> supporting OPTIONS="last_run_rule" (which would also allow overriding
> the RUN rules and simplify the rules for the console devices).
> 
> I'm attaching a patch which shows how simple supporting this would be.

Too simple! How do you control symlinks, control permissions with
a user-rule. You want a last_symlink_rule, last_permission_rule? I will
implement := final assigments that prevent changes by later rules and
everything should work.

Kay


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