From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:07:53 +0000 Subject: Re: udev.rules.devfs patch Message-Id: <20040115150753.GA15742@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <200401151523.58821.john-hotplug@fjellstad.org> In-Reply-To: <200401151523.58821.john-hotplug@fjellstad.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ 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