From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [udev] experimental (very simple) SYMLINK creation
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 00:43:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-107102215001318@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-107060923531865@msgid-missing>
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 06:45:43PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 01:35:08AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:24:33AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > > > here is a experimental symlink creation patch - for discussion,
> > > > > in which direction we should go.
> >
> > Very nice, applied. I should wait a few days all the time before
> > applying your patches :)
>
> Oh, so I have the time to discuss it with myself :)
>
> What do you think? Should we allow multiple symlinks? Separated by which character?
> So we may simply loop over the field and create more than one:
>
> ..., SYMLINK="webcam%n:camera/%n:v4l/video%n"
Hm, I don't really think that I would ever need more than one symlink,
but hey, it can't hurt to add support for it :)
> Attached is a trivial cleanup patch:
>
> 01-cleanup_man+remove_symlink_comment.diff
> remove "want symlinks" text from udev-add.c
> mention SYMLINK in man page
> man page format cleanup
> man page example for SYMLINK
Applied, thanks.
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-05 7:26 [udev] experimental (very simple) SYMLINK creation Olaf Hering
2003-12-05 15:45 ` Kay Sievers
2003-12-07 6:02 ` Kay Sievers
2003-12-07 17:45 ` Kay Sievers
2003-12-07 17:58 ` Marco d'Itri
2003-12-10 0:43 ` Greg KH [this message]
2003-12-10 1:06 ` Greg KH
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2003-12-05 4:24 Kay Sievers
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