On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:34:57PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 09:14:20AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > this patch makes the format for NAME and SYMLINK a bit more flexible: 
> > I've added a new format specifier '%s{<SYSFS_var>}', which allows for 
> > the value of any sysfs entry found for this device to be inserted.
> > Example (for our S/390 fcp adapter):
> > 
> > BUS="ccw", SYSFS_devtype="1732/03", NAME="%k" \
> > SYMLINK="zfcp-%s{hba_id}-%s{wwpn}:%s{fcp_lun}"
> > 
> > I know this could also be done with an external program, but having this 
> > incorporated into udev makes life easier, especially if run from 
> > initramfs. Plus it makes the rules easier to follow, as the result is 
> > directly visible and need not to be looked up in some external program.
> > 
> > Comments etc. welcome.
> 
> Oops, sorry I missed this for the 017 release.  I'll look at it tomorrow
> and get back to you.  At first glance it looks like a good thing.
> 
> Oh, you forgot to update the documentation, that's important to do if
> you want this change to make it in :)

I took a part of the code and made a version that uses already implemented
attribute finding logic.

The parsing of the format length '%3x' and the '%x{attribute}' is a fuction now,
maybe there are more possible users in the future.

I've also added the test to udev-test.pl.


thanks,
Kay