On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 09:24:57PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 12:06, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 12:25:22AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > > 3) After looking at ide-devfs.sh, I converted it to create the 'compat'
> > > symlinks (/dev/{cdroms,discs}/* stuff) if anybody is interested (as
> > > ide-devfs-compat.sh).
> > [...]
> > > 4) Is there any reason why only one 'method' (meaning only one of the
> > > callouts I may have for ide devices - I may want to use both the
> > > ide-devfs.sh and ide-devfs-compat.sh to have multiple symlinks for on
> > > device ...) is done for each device and/or hotplug event (beside lack
> > > of time to implement) ?  Same for why only 'type' of 'method' is done
> > > for each (if a CALLOUT is done, the rest is skipped) ?
> > 
> > Why not merge the two callout scripts in one, so that it
> > returns the two symlinks at once?
> > We support multiple symlinks separated by spaces.
> > 
> > ...,NAME="%k", SYMLINK="%2c %3c"
> > 
> 
> Right, now why isn't that in the docs?  Unfortunately I also missed it
> while trying at hacking multiple SYMLINK=foo, SYMLINK=bar support.

it's in a man page example :)
here is a patch for the script and a small fix for namedev to work with...

thanks,
Kay