From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev.rules syntax question
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:58:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101200301.3358.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041123004518.GA179133@sgi.com>
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 09:53 +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 16:45 -0800, Jeremy Higdon wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I have a rules file with the following rules:
> >>
> >>BUS="scsi", PROGRAM="/sbin/udev_xscsi", SYMLINK="%c"
> >>BUS="scsi", PROGRAM="/sbin/udev.get_persistent_device_name.sh", NAME="%k" SYMLINK="%c{1+}"
> >>
> >>
> >>By my reading of the documentation, both rules should provide a symlink to
> >>the canonical name (/dev/sda, or whatever).
> >>
> >>However, I only get the symlinks from the second rule. If I change the first
> >>line to:
> >>
> >>BUS="scsi", PROGRAM="/sbin/udev_xscsi", NAME="%k" SYMLINK="%c"
> >>
> >>
> >>then I only get the symlink from the first rule.
> >
> >
> > That should work, right.
> >
> Should it? IIRC the parsing stops after the first matched rule. Or has
> this behaviour changed?
No, we have this a long time. It is called "symlink only rule". You can
collect matching rules with only SYMLINK and no NAME, all symlinks are
going to be appended to the symlink string of the finally matching rule.
It's in the man page.
Best,
Kay
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-23 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-23 0:45 udev.rules syntax question Jeremy Higdon
2004-11-23 0:58 ` Kay Sievers
2004-11-23 7:02 ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-11-23 7:48 ` Greg KH
2004-11-23 8:53 ` Hannes Reinecke
2004-11-23 8:58 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2004-11-23 9:17 ` Hannes Reinecke
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