From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 01:04:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] multple rules files support/symlink rules support Message-Id: <20040203010420.GC2340@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 Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 06:44:53PM +0100, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote: > > please take a look in the attached files > > - the first should create layout as the one of static /dev (00-lsb) > - the second adds devfs symlinks (01-devfs) > - additional one's could be used by the configuration > tools of the distribution( e.g. to create /dev/cd-writer or /dev/dvd) > - and at the end would come the personal rules of the > owner of the system > > in this way the device would be accessable from the standard > static /dev, devfs, and the additional system/personal namespaces > > in this way, if the owner changes only his rule file, he can not harm the > system > he only add's a personal symlink, devices are created as in static dev, > with symlink for devfs But the "owner" is the "system", right? They are really the same person. I think it looks like a neat hack to be able to add symlinks, but I can't see a real use for it in the world. Take a look at /etc/fstab, or any of the other system wide config files in /etc. They don't provide a place that a user can add more items in another file, do they? All that is needed is to modify the original file to add your new items. 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