From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 23:40:10 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 007 release Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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