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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem parsing %s in udev rules
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 23:50:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041006235032.GA11935@vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097105584.9273.9.camel@bluto.andrew>

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 05:33:04PM -0600, Andrew Patterson wrote:
> Udev seems to be chopping off anything seen in a rule after a %s.  For
> example, if I have the following rule:
> 
> BUS="scsi", KERNEL="sd*", PROGRAM="/sbin/scsi_id", NAME="%k",
> SYMLINK="scsi_disks/some-proceeding-stuff-%s{model}-some-following-
> stuff"
> 
> Everything after the %s{model} is ignored.
> 
> Furthermore, everything in model following whitespace is ignored as
> well.  I.e, if model contains "HP 34.7G", the resulting device file
> created is /dev/scsi_disks/some-proceeding-stuff-HP.
> 
> I used the following command to run this test:
> 
> # DEVPATH=/block/sda ACTION­d ./udev block
> 
> I also get the same behavior when using udevstart (patched to fix
> parameter passing problems).

If your sysfs value contains spaces, which is the delimiter for multiple
symlinks, it will not work.

udev can't do this now, you need to wrap the call with an external script,
which ensures sane values.

Kay


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-06 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-06 23:33 Problem parsing %s in udev rules Andrew Patterson
2004-10-06 23:50 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2004-10-07  0:23 ` Andrew Patterson
2004-10-07  0:30 ` Kay Sievers
2004-10-12 23:04 ` Andrew Patterson
2004-10-12 23:58 ` Greg KH
2004-10-13 23:13 ` Andrew Patterson
2004-10-13 23:56 ` Greg KH
2004-10-14 20:05 ` Andrew Patterson
2004-10-15 18:45 ` Greg KH

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