Re: udev sysfs %s{filename} not working

[Oli Comber <ocomber@cmedltd.com>]

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On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 03:31 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 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

Excellent, Cheers Kay!  I look forward to trying out the next version.
This should take a lot of load off of cups, sane etc trying to do device
discovery themselves or users struggling to have dependable
names/devices for two or more connected printers (My original
problem ;0) )

Good work! :0)

-Oli

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