From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:24:38 +0000 Subject: Re: [Patch] Selective removal mode for udev Message-Id: <20050213212438.GA24179@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <420C787E.7080407@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <420C787E.7080407@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:52:28AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 10:18 +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > >Because we are chicken ... > > > >This patch adds a 'removal' mode for udev, with three possible choices: > > > >- all: default behaviour; remove all nodes and symlinks > >- symlink_only: only remove symlinks, but keep device nodes > >- none: do not remove nodes nor symlinks. > > > >The latter is equivalent with the existing 'ignore_remove' rule > >statement, but implemented as a global switch. > > > >Properly documented in the man-page etc. > > > >This is basically for those worrying about 'my device node may be > >vanishing and ooh everything will stop working'. > > > >Comments etc welcome. > > Hmm, wouldn't it be nicer to be able to set these things along with the > rules, so we still have only one source of policy. And we are able to > match against SUBSYSTEMS, DRIVERS and such things? > > Something like an OPTIONS="..." key, which may contain a list of keys > and we can also move the no_partitions key into that. > > This way we can specify the "remove-policy" with an "option" only rule > globally or only for a certain subsystem. I've added something to my tree: http://vrfy.bkbits.net:8080/udev/patch@1.1143?nav=cset@1.1143 We have options-only rules now: BUS="scsi", SUBSYSTEM="block", SYSFS{removable}="1", OPTIONS="all_partitions" will create all partitions for all block devices which are known to have removable media. It does not implement your remove-only-the-symlinks option. For what was it meant to be used? Thanks, Kay ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&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