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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev.rules.devfs patch
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:07:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040115150753.GA15742@vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401151523.58821.john-hotplug@fjellstad.org>

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 10:00:55AM -0500, Martin Hicks wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:49:10PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Greg, I would be happy to remove the ugly %D at all.
> > It's unable to handle cdroms, an the 'dis[ck]'/'partition' thing is easy done by two rules.
> > Then the dis[ck] decision is also up to the user :)
> 
> Please don't get rid of %D.  I just started using it.  The problem that
> I'm dealing with is that the directory where the devfs names are created
> are unpredictable so my callout returns the directory that I'm to create
> the devfs names in and I do something like:
> 
> BUS="scsi", CALLOUT="blah", ID="*", NAME="%c/%D", SYMLINK="%c/theAlias"

I don't see your need.
Just use two rules matching with the kernel name, or handle the %D in your script.
And ID= is gone now, in udev v013. We are using RESULT= instead.

I vote for killing the %D :)

Kay


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-15 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-15 14:23 udev.rules.devfs patch John L. Fjellstad
2004-01-15 14:49 ` Kay Sievers
2004-01-15 15:00 ` Martin Hicks
2004-01-15 15:07 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2004-01-15 21:43 ` Greg KH

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