From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Clarification on /etc/udev/rules.d processing
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:09:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040421100920.GA23501@vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4085F187.2070003@backtobasicsmgmt.com>
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:59:03PM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> I've just started using udev, and I've decided I'd much rather have
> individual config files for various purposes in /etc/udev/rules.d rather
> than one combined file.
>
> From my reading of the code, it appears that udev always reads all the
> files in that directory (which is good), and they are read in readdir()
> order which should mean I can control the order by using alphanumeric
> sorting of the names (also good).
>
> What I'm not clear on is how udev will handle multiple rules that match
> for a given device: if more than one rule wants to provide a device
> name, I presume udev will stop looking for device name rules as soon as
> any rules matches, right?
Yes.
> In spite of that, rules that add symlinks to a
> device seem to always be processed even if they appear in the file after
> the rule that supplied the device name.
No, if NAME is set by a rule, the processing is stopped. No later
"symlink only" rule will be applied.
thanks,
Kay
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-21 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-21 3:59 Clarification on /etc/udev/rules.d processing Kevin P. Fleming
2004-04-21 10:09 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2004-04-21 14:20 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-04-21 16:08 ` Marco d'Itri
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