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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 /udev.8 | |
| 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 'udev.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | udev.8 | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -161,9 +161,15 @@ device position on bus, like physical port of USB device string replacement of the kernel device name .br .RB "key: " KERNEL +.TP +.B IGNORE +tell udev to not care about creation of this device, e.g. because the +device is already handled by another program +.br +.RB "key: " KERNEL .P The methods are applied in the following order: -.BR CALLOUT ", " LABEL ", " NUMBER ", " TOPOLOGY ", " REPLACE "." +.BR IGNORE ", " CALLOUT ", " LABEL ", " NUMBER ", " TOPOLOGY ", " REPLACE "." .P .RB "The " NAME " ," SYMLINK " and " PROGRAM fields support simple printf-like string substitution: |