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

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 06:33:32PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 15 November 2003 17:09, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> > Oh, I see. Do you mean something like this:
> >
> > LABEL, BUS="usb", model="Creative Labs WebCam 3",
> > NAME="webcam%n-%M:%m-test"
> 
> That would at least be part of the solution I'm looking for. How about
> extra format characters for bus_id and for the result of a callout program?

Sure, I can see the use for that.  Want to send a patch?  :)

> What I really need is a way to generate names for my devices without
> having to list each one in the configuration file in its own line. With 
> the old devfs naming scheme, the dasda1 block device would become visible
> as /dev/dasd/0.0.0203/part1, where 0.0.0203 is the bus_id. I've tried 
> implementing at least autogeneration of /udev/dasd-0.0.0203p1, but I haven't
> found an easy way to get from the partition's sysfs_class_device to the 
> corresponding sysfs_device in get_attr().

Take a look at the current bk tree (which has moved to
bk://linuxusb.bkbits.net/udev/ )  I've made finding that device a lot
easier now, and it works for all rule types.

> Also, do I get problems with the database implementation when I try
> to use the same configuration file entry for all devices using the same
> driver or similar?

You shouldn't.  udev doesn't care about drivers, only names of devices.

thanks,

greg k-h


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