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authordavid@fubar.dk <david@fubar.dk>2004-09-10 21:04:13 -0700
committerGreg KH <gregkh@suse.de>2005-04-26 21:37:00 -0700
commit0a8dd7f37c6f788c74aa528949c45aca66638e5a (patch)
tree3d329ed3bf9daf1c30d19a41c4de381bc09f7b75 /udev.c
parent3e4414508b409a21b023b9ca4532f62003e0db97 (diff)
[PATCH] compatibility symlinks for udev
On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 17:45 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 16:46 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote: > > Nice, I like it. It's a easy way to group device nodes of the same type, > but coming from different kernel subsystems. > That's a good way of putting it, yeah. > > Here's a patch against udev-030 that can help create compatibility > > symlinks like /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrom1 etc. The patch introduces a new > > substitution type %C (for Compatibility) that can be used as follows > > I suggest using %e for enumeration here, cause "compatibility" can > easily be misunderstood. > Good point, I've changed that. > And we need a few lines added to the man page at udev.8.in :) > Done. I've also added an example. Also, Kay pointed out offlist that the rules can be written to not require a shell script; this actually works KERNEL="sr*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom%e" KERNEL="scd*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom%e" KERNEL="pcd*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom%e" KERNEL="hd[a-z]", PROGRAM="/bin/cat /proc/ide/%k/media", RESULT="cdrom", NAME="\%k", SYMLINK="cdrom%e" KERNEL="fd[0-9]", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="floppy%e" KERNEL="hd[a-z]", PROGRAM="/bin/cat /proc/ide/%k/media", RESULT="floppy", NAME=\"%k", SYMLINK="floppy%e" New patch is attached. David
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