From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 03:27:32 +0000 Subject: [udev] man page with included placeholder list MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS" Message-Id: List-Id: To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 06-udev.8-placeholder.diff mention the printf-like support for string substitution in the NAME field thanks, Kay --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="06-udev.8-placeholder.diff" --- ../udev/udev.8 2003-11-18 02:19:33.000000000 +0100 +++ udev.8 2003-11-19 04:19:03.000000000 +0100 @@ -72,6 +72,23 @@ .br keys: \fBBUS\fP, \fBPROGRAM\fP, \fBID\fP .P +The name field supports simple printf-like string subtitution: +.RS +.TP +.B %n +the "kernel number" of the device +for example, 'sda3' has a "kernel number" of '3' +.TP +.B %M +the kernel major number for the device +.TP +.B %m +the kernel minor number for the device +.TP +.B %b +the bus id for the device +.RE +.P A sample \fIudev.conf\fP might look like this: .sp .nf @@ -89,6 +106,9 @@ # if /sbin/scsi_id returns "OEM 0815" device will be called disk1 CALLOUT, PROGRAM="/sbin/scsi_id" BUS="scsi", ID="OEM 0815" NAME="disk1" + +# USB webcams to be called webcam0, webcam1, ... +LABEL, BUS="usb", model="WebCam Version 3", NAME="webcam%n" .fi .P Permissions and ownership for the created device files may specified at --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ 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