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| author | christophe@saout.de <christophe@saout.de> | 2004-01-10 00:55:28 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> | 2005-04-26 21:13:14 -0700 |
| commit | f1db055ab2e349ce22254562faaece66d6a4a873 (patch) | |
| tree | 4413147132819486b06f92cfec717dfb4a6d5659 /etc/udev/udev.rules | |
| parent | c53735efc9720b28676c1b51fbed04dc592236e8 (diff) | |
[PATCH] add IGNORE rule type
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:24:53AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > There should be a possibility to tell udev not to create a device node.
> >
> > device-mapper: Usually set up by libdevmapper (or EVMS tools) which
> > creates the device node on its own under /dev/mapper/<name>.
> >
> > With udev a second device is created named /dev/dm-<minor> which is not
> > really needed.
>
> Good point. Ok, I'll agree with you. Care to make up a patch for this
> kind of feature?
Yes, I can try.
There was no way to tell not to do anything so I created one. Errors
are signalled via negative return values, so I thought that a positive,
non-zero one could mean to ignore the device. I don't like it but
perhaps you have a better solution.
Diffstat (limited to 'etc/udev/udev.rules')
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/udev/udev.rules | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/etc/udev/udev.rules b/etc/udev/udev.rules index b206503e15..c2b50eb90d 100644 --- a/etc/udev/udev.rules +++ b/etc/udev/udev.rules @@ -49,4 +49,5 @@ REPLACE, KERNEL="ttyUSB0", NAME="pl2303" # if this is a ide cdrom, name it the default name, and create a symlink to cdrom CALLOUT, BUS="ide", PROGRAM="/bin/cat /proc/ide/%k/media", ID="cdrom", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom" - +# device mapper creates its own device nodes +IGNORE, KERNEL="dm-[0-9]*" |