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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev - question about current config format
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:38:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040110013850.GA2137@vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040109142112.GA752@vrfy.org>

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 05:30:20PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:21:12PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> >   Every line in udev.rules consists only of a number of <key>="<value>"
> > 
> >     BUS           match with bus type
> >     SYSFS_<file>  match with device attribute
> >     ID/PLACE      match with bus "number" or "id"
> >     KERNEL        match with kernel device name
> >     RESULT        match with string returned by executed PROGRAM
> >     PROGRAM       program to execute (true if exec returned with 0)
> 
> So don't match on a string value here?  Hm, would that make writing
> programs easier?  At first glance it might.  It also might be a bit
> easier to understand.

What kind of string value do you mean?


> At first glance, this is a big simplification, and yet is more flexible,
> I like it :)
> 
> Have a patch to play with?

Wait a few days :)


Kay


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-10  1:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-09 14:21 udev - question about current config format Kay Sievers
2004-01-10  1:30 ` Greg KH
2004-01-10  1:38 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2004-01-10  3:52 ` Greg KH
2004-01-10  4:01 ` Kay Sievers
2004-01-10  4:03 ` Greg KH
2004-01-10  5:27 ` Kay Sievers
2004-01-10  5:39 ` Kay Sievers

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