From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Marco d'Itri" Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:43:12 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] multple rules files support/symlink rules support Message-Id: <20040127114312.GA3636@wonderland.linux.it> 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 Jan 27, "\"Andrey Borzenkov\" " wrote: >Can you explain how are you going to merge them? And even programmatically? >there is nothing in those rules that suggests they will be applied >to the same device. They are likely to be maintained >separately by people who do not know about other rule nor care. >The first one may be part of standard distro (LSB conformance, >devfs compatibility, sr -> scd mapping, whatever). The second >will be created by particular user on particular system. He may >not even know nor care about the other one. Agreed. As the debian maintainer of udev I consider *very* important for users being allowed to specify additional rules which will be merged with the ones of the default configuration. A trivial example is being able to add rules with only a SYMLINK statement which will match a specific device and create an additional symlinks (i.e. not override the ones already defined in the main configuration file). -- ciao, | Marco | [4327 imAdaRzQihvIU] ------------------------------------------------------- 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