From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 12:42:53 +0000 Subject: Re: new release of udev? Message-Id: <20050522124253.GA8834@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 02:01:21PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 22, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > Too simple! How do you control symlinks, control permissions with > > a user-rule. You want a last_symlink_rule, last_permission_rule? I will > No. Everything would work exactly as when NAME rules were terminal. > > Since we can't get an agreement on this solution, what about a different > scheme? We could have = and += assignments: when used with elements like > SYMLINK and RUN the first would reset all previous assignments, and the > second would add it. > This way it would be possible to easily override any value, even to remove > any other with rules like SUBSYSTEM="vc", RUN="". It was _you_ who asked to be able to overwrite the system specified rules for symlinks. That's not possible this way. And again, how do you prevent overriding the permissions from later system specified rules? 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