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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Selective removal mode for udev
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:52:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1108115548.5397.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <420C787E.7080407@suse.de>

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 10:18 +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>Because we are chicken ...
>
>This patch adds a 'removal' mode for udev, with three possible choices:
>
>- all: default behaviour; remove all nodes and symlinks
>- symlink_only: only remove symlinks, but keep device nodes
>- none: do not remove nodes nor symlinks.
>
>The latter is equivalent with the existing 'ignore_remove' rule 
>statement, but implemented as a global switch.
>
>Properly documented in the man-page etc.
>
>This is basically for those worrying about 'my device node may be 
>vanishing and ooh everything will stop working'.
>
>Comments etc welcome.

Hmm, wouldn't it be nicer to be able to set these things along with the
rules, so we still have only one source of policy. And we are able to
match against SUBSYSTEMS, DRIVERS and such things?

Something like an OPTIONS="..." key, which may contain a list of keys
and we can also move the no_partitions key into that.

This way we can specify the "remove-policy" with an "option" only rule
globally or only for a certain subsystem.

How does that sound?

Kay



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  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-11  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-11  9:18 [Patch] Selective removal mode for udev Hannes Reinecke
2005-02-11  9:52 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2005-02-11 10:15 ` Christian Zoz
2005-02-11 11:39 ` Kay Sievers
2005-02-11 13:51 ` Hannes Reinecke
2005-02-13 21:24 ` Kay Sievers
2005-02-18 17:43 ` Hannes Reinecke

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