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

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 01:09:02PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 November 2003 04:15, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Cause we only match against a already known result of the callout program,
> > it doesn't make much sense to provide a format character without support of
> > wildcards for ID.
> 
> Correct, with the current CALLOUT rule definition, there is not much point in
> that. I was rather thinking of either adding support for globbing to callout
> or having another rule that runs an external program and can take its output
> into account:
> 
> a)
> CALLOUT, PROGRAM="/sbin/dasd_id" BUS="ccw", ID="dasd-*", NAME="%i%n"

I think the result of a CALLOUT program should be able to be put into a
NAME, it would make udev much more flexible.

thanks,

greg k-h


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