[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.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/namedev.h b/namedev.h
index 1ac71069ad..f1e770277b 100644
--- a/namedev.h
+++ b/namedev.h
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ enum config_type {
 	TOPOLOGY	= 3,
 	REPLACE		= 4,
 	CALLOUT		= 5,
+	IGNORE		= 6,
 };
 
 #define BUS_SIZE	30
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ enum config_type {
 #define TYPE_TOPOLOGY	"TOPOLOGY"
 #define TYPE_REPLACE	"REPLACE"
 #define TYPE_CALLOUT	"CALLOUT"
+#define TYPE_IGNORE	"IGNORE"
 
 #define FIELD_BUS	"BUS"
 #define FIELD_ID	"ID"