Re: The Next Generation

[Erik van Konijnenburg <ekonijn@xs4all.nl>]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:50:22PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Feb 28, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> 
> > It is nicer to read, yes. But renaming some of the keys would be nice
> > too, like:
> >   ADD_SYMLINK, ADD_HOTPLUG, MATCH_ACTION, SET_GROUP, SET_MODE, SET_NAME
> Please don't... this would make rules files excessively verbose, and I
> believe that it's already quite clear which rules are conditions and
> which one are actions.

Once you're fully familiar with the rules, yes.  However, when I was
learning the rules, a bit of syntactic sugar would have helped.

How about: "IF the separator is an arrow instead of a comma,
then the conditions must be on the left and the actions on the right"

	KERNEL="js[0-9]*" => NAME="input/%k", MODE="0664"

It's less verbose, backward compatible, and allows udev to catch
some misunderstandings from a beginning rule author.

Regards,
Erik


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