diff -Nru a/namedev_parse.c b/namedev_parse.c
--- a/namedev_parse.c	Sun Feb 15 03:18:44 2004
+++ b/namedev_parse.c	Sun Feb 15 03:18:44 2004
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
 	char *temp;
 	char *temp2;
 	char *temp3;
+	char *pos;
 	FILE *fd;
 	int program_given = 0;
 	int retval = 0;
@@ -150,7 +151,7 @@
 				continue;
 			}
 
-			if (strncasecmp(temp2, FIELD_SYSFS, sizeof(FIELD_SYSFS)-1) == 0) {
+			if (strncasecmp(temp2, FIELD_SYSFS, sizeof(FIELD_SYSFS)-2) == 0) {
 				struct sysfs_pair *pair = &dev.sysfs_pair[0];
 				int sysfs_pair_num = 0;
 
@@ -164,8 +165,11 @@
 					++pair;
 				}
 				if (pair) {
-					/* remove prepended 'SYSFS_' */
+					/* extract file from 'SYSFS{file}' or 'SYSFS_file' */
 					strfieldcpy(pair->file, temp2 + sizeof(FIELD_SYSFS)-1);
+					pos = strchr(pair->file, '}');
+					if (pos != NULL)
+						pos[0] = '\0';
 					strfieldcpy(pair->value, temp3);
 				}
 				continue;
diff -Nru a/test/udev-test.pl b/test/udev-test.pl
--- a/test/udev-test.pl	Sun Feb 15 03:18:44 2004
+++ b/test/udev-test.pl	Sun Feb 15 03:18:44 2004
@@ -194,6 +194,16 @@
 EOF
 	},
 	{
+		desc     => "select sysfs attribute by SYFS{vendor}",
+		subsys   => "block",
+		devpath  => "block/sda",
+		expected => "disk-IBM-ESXS-sda" ,
+		conf     => <<EOF
+BUS="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}="IBM-ESXS", NAME="disk-%s{vendor}-%k"
+KERNEL="ttyUSB0", NAME="visor"
+EOF
+	},
+	{
 		desc     => "sustitution of sysfs value (%s{file})",
 		subsys   => "block",
 		devpath  => "block/sda",