Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 007 release

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 04:19:45AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 24 November 2003 01:29, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > I think with the ability to capture the output of the CALLOUT rule,
> > combined with the ability to put format modifiers in the CALLOUT program
> > string, we now have everything in place to emulate the existing devfs
> > naming scheme.  Anyone want to verify this or not?
> 
> I would prefer to have the ability of creating partition nodes in devfs
> style built-in to udev. Devfs used to call the whole disk e.g. 
> "/dev/dasd/0123/disk" and the partitions "/dev/dasd/0123/part[1-3]".
> This can obviously be done with a CALLOUT rule, but its common enough
> to make it a format modifier. AFAIK, this scheme has been used for
> ide, scsi and dasd disks, which is about 99% of all disks ever connected
> to Linux.

Ok, that makes sense.  I've applied this patch, but used the 'D'
modifier (for Devfs name).  Is that ok with you?

> One thing that does not appear to be possible with udev but was common
> with devfs is to have multiple links for the same device node, e.g.
> /dev/hda1 as well as /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 and
> /dev/disk/0/part1.

Yes, we need to add support for both multiple names, and symlinks.  It's
on the TODO list I think (well the symlinks are, multiple names should
be if it isn't.)

thanks,

greg k-h


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