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authorkay.sievers@vrfy.org <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2004-03-02 00:08:28 -0800
committerGreg KH <gregkh@suse.de>2005-04-26 21:35:06 -0700
commitdba8c18b8b7b5f4c6d79593df8179c02a78d020f (patch)
tree7f59a73de5fdeb345bf31c56afda2080d3264389
parent8ea84a8a781c22f67def088eb9df581590393cda (diff)
[PATCH] clarify udevinfo device walk
It seems that the long attribute list can confuse the user. Se here we print a few words on top the attributes.
-rw-r--r--udevinfo.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/udevinfo.c b/udevinfo.c
index 01c2a2a8ae..b15f174e40 100644
--- a/udevinfo.c
+++ b/udevinfo.c
@@ -149,7 +149,14 @@ static int print_device_chain(const char *path)
retval = -1;
goto exit;
}
- printf("\ndevice '%s' has major:minor %s", class_dev->path, attr->value);
+
+ printf("\nudevinfo starts with the device the node belongs to and then walks up the\n"
+ "device chain to print for every device found all possibly useful attributes\n"
+ "in the udev key format.\n"
+ "Only attributes within one device section may be used in a rule to match the\n"
+ "device for which the node will be created.\n"
+ "\n");
+ printf("device '%s' has major:minor %s", class_dev->path, attr->value);
sysfs_close_attribute(attr);
/* open sysfs class device directory and print all attributes */