From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:58:21 +0000 Subject: Re: udev.rules syntax question Message-Id: <1101200301.3358.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <20041123004518.GA179133@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20041123004518.GA179133@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel