From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 01:31:28 +0000 Subject: Re: udev sysfs %s{filename} not working Message-Id: <1111973488.5336.46.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 Wed, 2005-03-23 at 17:37 +0000, Oliver Comber wrote: > > > > > > Yeah, we just look at the class device itself and physical device, but > > > do not walk up the all physical devices while searching for the sysfs > > > attribute to apply with a format char. I will see what I can do for a > > > one of the next udev versions. > > > In the meantime this dirty trick may work: "%s{../product}". :) > > Excuse the bad form posting over myself, but I've just managed to get > your hack above to work with the latest released sources (056) : > > BUS="usb", KERNEL="lp[0-9]*", NAME="usb/%k", SYMLINK="myprinters/% > s{../product}" > > gives me free, (almost) unique device naming, without having to write > any device specific udev rules! > > The version shipped in Ubuntu Warty - 028 - doesn't support this hack. I've added something to my tree today. The next udev version will be able to do this without the "../". 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