From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:51:07 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] multple rules files support/symlink rules support Message-Id: <20040121235107.GC1958@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <200401172313.00189.arvidjaar@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <200401172313.00189.arvidjaar@mail.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:13:00PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > Attached patch adds support for > > - multiple rules files. You can now do > > udev_rules="file1 dir2 file3 ..." > > directory is scanned and all files are read. Currently it does not descend > into subdirs. Ok, that is nice. I like that part of the patch. > - to make the above really useful it allows multiple rules with symlinks; all > rules are collected and applied (note 100 characters limit for total names > length currently). It still takes the first found name and warns if more were > seen. I don't really understand this. Can you give an example of how this would work? Why do we want to have multiple symlinks from different rules? thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ 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