From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:08:26 +0000 Subject: Re: udev sysfs %s{filename} not working Message-Id: <1111489706.6050.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <1111489188.24786.1183.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1111489188.24786.1183.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 10:59 +0000, Oliver Comber wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm having a problem creating symbolic links with udev using the % > s{filename} construct. > > I'm using Ubuntu Warty, kernel 2.6.8.1-4-386, udev 0.026-1ubuntu5. Is that udev version 026? > I want to name USB devices, specifically printers, according to > manufacturer and possibly (eventually) serial number. > > The rule I'm trying to use is: > BUS="usb", KERNEL="lp[0-9]*", NAME="usb/%k", SYMLINK="usbdev-% > s{product}" > > The symlink which gets created is: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Mar 22 10:36 /dev/usbdev- -> > usb/lp0 > > My %s{product} bit seems to resolve to an empty string. What does: udevinfo -a -p /class/usb/lp0 You can use only the attributes that show up here. Good luck, 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://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ 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