Re: Does sysfs really provides persistent hardware path to devices?

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 03:05:18PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:03:12AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 01:34:16PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:34:13PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > > as example shows it probably can be done without serious patches. The only 
> > > > problem is to make devpath available; at this point udev already computed it. 
> > > > If you think it makes sense, patch will follow.
> > > 
> > > I could see making devpath available as a % modifier.
> > 
> > It's available in the environment. PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c set>/tmp/set" shows:
> > 
> >   ACTION­d
> >   DEVPATH=/class/video4linux/video0
> >   DIRSTACK=()
> >   EUID=0
> >   GROUPS=()
> >   HOME=/
> >   ...
> 
> Oh, sorry, better to read the whole text :)
> You mean the "device" path, right?

No, I think he wanted DEVPATH, or that's what I thought he ment...

thanks,

greg k-h


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