From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Marco d'Itri" Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:30:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev - allow all files in a directory as the config Message-Id: <20040220123041.GA4890@wonderland.linux.it> List-Id: References: <20040220015646.GA13016@vrfy.org> In-Reply-To: <20040220015646.GA13016@vrfy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Feb 20, Kay Sievers wrote: >I was on the train for 5 hours today and the TODO is almost empty :) Don't forget about the patch to merge multiple entries (e.g. for adding symlinks)... :-) >We may specify now in udev.conf: > > udev_rules="/etc/udev/" > >and udev will scan the whole directory for files ending with *.rules, >sort it in lexical order and create our rule list from all of the files. >A plain given file will still work and the same applies to the *.permissions. As a vendor, I think that it would be easier to just specify a list of files in udev.conf. This way users could easily select the config files they need (devfs style, devfsstyle with compatibility symlink, old style, etc) without the need to rename the config files provided (something annoying for package managers). -- ciao, | Marco | [4685 un7QkK300vm7o] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ 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