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

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:09:14PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:49:03AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:30:08AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> > > Yes, it doesn't append the number when a label is specified for a
> > > partition. But what when i want my partition labeled "data" not "data1"
> > > LABEL, BUS="ide", size="117210177", NAME="data"
> > 
> > Problem is, if you use the LABEL rule to match a device, like a SCSI
> > vendor, then all of the partitions, as well as the main block device,
> > will end up with the same name.  That's why I added the "add the number"
> > hack to the LABEL rule.
> > 
> > So yes, your patch is correct in that we shouldn't always be adding the
> > number to any match for LABEL (like for char devices), but if we do
> > that, then we break partitions.  Your '%' patch fixes this, but I'd just
> > like to extend it a bit.  Let me see what I can come up with...
> 
> Oh, I see. Do you mean something like this:
> 
> LABEL, BUS="usb", model="Creative Labs WebCam 3", NAME="webcam%n-%M:%m-test"
> 
> results in: "webcam0-81:0-test"

Very nice, this is exactly what I was thinking of.  I've applied your
patchs (the first one wasn't necessary, as I already did that a few days
ago.)

thanks again, I really appreciate the help.

greg k-h


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