* [PATCH] clarify udevinfo device walk
@ 2004-03-01 23:52 Kay Sievers
2004-03-02 0:09 ` Greg KH
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From: Kay Sievers @ 2004-03-01 23:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-hotplug
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It seems that the long attribute list can confuse the user.
Se here we print a few words on top the attributes.
thanks,
Kay
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===== udevinfo.c 1.14 vs edited =====
--- 1.14/udevinfo.c Wed Feb 25 01:04:14 2004
+++ edited/udevinfo.c Tue Mar 2 00:46:03 2004
@@ -148,7 +148,14 @@
retval = -1;
goto exit;
}
- printf("\ndevice '%s' has major:minor %s", class_dev->path, attr->value);
+
+ printf("\nudevinfo starts with the device the node belongs to and then walks up the\n"
+ "device chain to print for every device found all possibly useful attributes\n"
+ "in the udev key format.\n"
+ "Only attributes within one device section may be used in a rule to match the\n"
+ "device for which the node will be created.\n"
+ "\n");
+ printf("device '%s' has major:minor %s", class_dev->path, attr->value);
sysfs_close_attribute(attr);
/* open sysfs class device directory and print all attributes */
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