From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 01:09:20 +0000 Subject: Re: new release of udev? Message-Id: <20050522010920.GA5296@vrfy.org> List-Id: References: <20050519065848.GA25640@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20050519065848.GA25640@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:59:28AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 20, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > > Why not? I think it's a very reasonable request. Different people have > > > different ideas about /dev. > > > > Well I still don't see a real need for this. Anyway, what about some > > "final assignments" instead: > > GROUP:="mygroup" or > > SYMLINK:="mylink" > > would set the value unchangeable for later rules. That may give us finer > > grained control and if you leave the permissions alone with your > > user-rule you still get the systems default. > > I don't get it... Now you invented a third kind of assignment, and you > say that all this is simpler to use and to understand than just > supporting OPTIONS="last_run_rule" (which would also allow overriding > the RUN rules and simplify the rules for the console devices). > > I'm attaching a patch which shows how simple supporting this would be. Too simple! How do you control symlinks, control permissions with a user-rule. You want a last_symlink_rule, last_permission_rule? I will implement := final assigments that prevent changes by later rules and everything should work. Kay ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt12&alloc_id344&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