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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [udev] man page with included placeholder list
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 03:27:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-106921250703845@msgid-missing> (raw)

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06-udev.8-placeholder.diff
  mention the printf-like support for string substitution in the NAME field

thanks,
Kay

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--- ../udev/udev.8	2003-11-18 02:19:33.000000000 +0100
+++ udev.8	2003-11-19 04:19:03.000000000 +0100
@@ -72,6 +72,23 @@
 .br
 keys: \fBBUS\fP, \fBPROGRAM\fP, \fBID\fP
 .P
+The name field supports simple printf-like string subtitution:
+.RS
+.TP
+.B %n
+the "kernel number" of the device
+for example, 'sda3' has a "kernel number" of '3'
+.TP
+.B %M
+the kernel major number for the device
+.TP
+.B %m
+the kernel minor number for the device
+.TP
+.B %b
+the bus id for the device
+.RE
+.P
 A sample \fIudev.conf\fP might look like this:
 .sp
 .nf
@@ -89,6 +106,9 @@
 
 # if /sbin/scsi_id returns "OEM 0815" device will be called disk1
 CALLOUT, PROGRAM="/sbin/scsi_id" BUS="scsi", ID="OEM 0815" NAME="disk1"
+
+# USB webcams to be called webcam0, webcam1, ...
+LABEL, BUS="usb", model="WebCam Version 3", NAME="webcam%n"
 .fi
 .P
 Permissions and ownership for the created device files may specified at

             reply	other threads:[~2003-11-19  3:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-19  3:27 Kay Sievers [this message]
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2003-11-19  6:41 [udev] man page with included placeholder list Greg KH

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