[PATCH] put symlink only rules to the man page

[PATCH] put symlink only rules to the man page

[Kay Sievers]

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Here we mention the "symlink only - add it to another rule" feature
to the man page. Andrey, does this describe what you have implemented :)

thanks,
Kay

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===== udev.8 1.49 vs edited =====
--- 1.49/udev.8	Thu Mar  4 14:38:53 2004
+++ edited/udev.8	Thu Mar  4 22:37:54 2004
@@ -200,8 +200,7 @@
 call.
 .TP
 .B NAME
-The name of the node to be created. If the name field is omitted or its
-value is empty, the device will be ignored and no node will be created.
+The name of the node to be created.
 .br
 If given with the attribute
 .BR NAME{ all_partitions }
@@ -211,6 +210,16 @@
 .B SYMLINK
 The name of a symlink targeting the node. Multiple symlinks may be
 specified by separating the names by the space character.
+.br
+If both the name and the symlink fields are omitted or its
+values empty, the device will be ignored and no node will be created.
+.br
+If only the symlink field is given and the name field is omitted,
+the rule will not be applied immediatly, but the symlink field is added
+to the symlink list of the rule which will create the node.
+This makes it possible to specify additional symlinks in a possibly
+separate rules file, while the device nodes are maintained by the
+distribution provided rules file.
 .P
 .RB "The " NAME " ," SYMLINK " and " PROGRAM
 fields support simple printf-like string substitution:

Re: [PATCH] put symlink only rules to the man page

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:46:52PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Here we mention the "symlink only - add it to another rule" feature
> to the man page. Andrey, does this describe what you have implemented :)

Applied, thanks.

greg k-h


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Re: [PATCH] put symlink only rules to the man page

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Friday 05 March 2004 00:46, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Here we mention the "symlink only - add it to another rule" feature
> to the man page. Andrey, does this describe what you have implemented :)
>

yes thank you. Greg, I guess it is quite OK for manual; anything more would 
fit into "usage example" case.

-andrey

> thanks,
> Kay


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