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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:59:27 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev - create all partitions of blockdevice
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On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:34:52AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Here is the first try to create all partitons of a blockdevice, since
> removable media devices may need to acces the expected partition to
> revalidate the media.
> 
> It uses the attribute syntax introduced with the last %s{file} patch.
> I'm using this with my multi-slot-flash-card-reader:
> 
>   SYSFS{model}="USB Storage-SMC ", NAME{all_partitions}="smartmedia"
>   SYSFS{model}="USB Storage-CFC ", NAME{all_partitions}="compactflash"
>   SYSFS{model}="USB Storage-MSC ", NAME{all_partitions}="memorystick"
>   SYSFS{model}="USB Storage-MMC ", NAME{all_partitions}="multimedia"
> 
> and I get:
> 
>   tree /udev/
>   /udev/
>   |-- memorystick
>   |-- memorystick1
>   |-- memorystick10
>   |-- memorystick11
>   |-- memorystick12
>   |-- memorystick13
>   |-- memorystick14
>   |-- memorystick15
>   |-- memorystick2
>   |-- memorystick3
>   |-- memorystick4
>   |-- memorystick5
>   |-- memorystick6
>   |-- memorystick7
>   |-- memorystick8
>   |-- memorystick9
>   |-- multimedia
>   |-- multimedia1
>   |-- multimedia10
>   |-- multimedia11
>   |-- multimedia12
>   |-- multimedia13
>   |-- multimedia14
>   |-- multimedia15
>   |-- multimedia2
>   |-- multimedia3
>   |-- multimedia4
>   |-- multimedia5
>   |-- multimedia6
>   |-- multimedia7
>   |-- multimedia8
>   |-- multimedia9
>   ...
> 
> 
> If needed, we can make the number of partions to create
> adjustable with the attribute?

Nice, this is great.  I don't think we need to change the number of
partitions.

I've applied this, and checked in a fix for udev-add.c if 'fake' was
true (which it is for udevtest).  I'll go test this for my devices with
partitions.

thanks,

greg k-h


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