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| author | kay.sievers@vrfy.org <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2003-11-19 06:18:54 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> | 2005-04-26 21:06:25 -0700 |
| commit | 4b710f033e86c72dbcae345564257f3ecce9941b (patch) | |
| tree | 76946a2c8716a575e225a06cfa7de66922248ef4 /udev.8 | |
| parent | db7a38df63130fedcb937961886eff1c93c98139 (diff) | |
[PATCH] man page with included placeholder list
mention the printf-like support for string substitution in the NAME field
Diffstat (limited to 'udev.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | udev.8 | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -72,6 +72,23 @@ calling external program, that returns a string to match .br keys: \fBBUS\fP, \fBPROGRAM\fP, \fBID\fP .P +The name field supports simple printf-like string subtitution: +.RS +.TP +.B %n +the "kernel number" of the device +for example, 'sda3' has a "kernel number" of '3' +.TP +.B %M +the kernel major number for the device +.TP +.B %m +the kernel minor number for the device +.TP +.B %b +the bus id for the device +.RE +.P A sample \fIudev.conf\fP might look like this: .sp .nf @@ -89,6 +106,9 @@ REPLACE, KERNEL="ttyUSB1", NAME="pda" # if /sbin/scsi_id returns "OEM 0815" device will be called disk1 CALLOUT, PROGRAM="/sbin/scsi_id" BUS="scsi", ID="OEM 0815" NAME="disk1" + +# USB webcams to be called webcam0, webcam1, ... +LABEL, BUS="usb", model="WebCam Version 3", NAME="webcam%n" .fi .P Permissions and ownership for the created device files may specified at |