Re: [udev] updated man, subdirs, ownership, namedev enum patches

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:23:30PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:53:55PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:31:28PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > 04-namedev.c-cleanup.diff
> > >   remove part of udev that appends the kernel enumeration to character devices
> > >   in LABEL method: NAME="webcam" results in /udev/webcam0
> > 
> > I think this patch breaks partition naming, did you try it on them?
> > Hm, are you sure this patch is correct?
> 
> I think so, block devices are handled at line 580. At line 626 the last
> digit from kernel name is appended to _every_ device including char devs.
> Partition naming seems ok with the patch, but i may miss something here.

Hm, if you take those lines out, I can't name a partition with the
number at the end of the name.  Yeah, that's a hack, and I need to fix
it up.

> > What happened to your other one
> > where you could put a '%' in the string to put the number into the name?
> 
> Alternate patch is attached, but i don't know if it is really useful.
> It substitutes the '%' placeholder in NAME= with the kernel device
> number.

I think we need more than just a %.  Users might care about a few things
for the name.  Like major, minor, and kernel device number (but it's
tricky to figure out what a device number is, think of sdaa...)  I'll
work on fixing this up next.

thanks,

greg k-h


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