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authorchristophe@saout.de <christophe@saout.de>2004-01-10 00:55:28 -0800
committerGreg KH <gregkh@suse.de>2005-04-26 21:13:14 -0700
commitf1db055ab2e349ce22254562faaece66d6a4a873 (patch)
tree4413147132819486b06f92cfec717dfb4a6d5659 /udev.c
parentc53735efc9720b28676c1b51fbed04dc592236e8 (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.
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diff --git a/udev.c b/udev.c
index bbff89bad5..116acf5389 100644
--- a/udev.c
+++ b/udev.c
@@ -221,6 +221,9 @@ exit_sysbus:
sysbus_disconnect();
exit:
+ if (retval > 0)
+ retval = 0;
+
return -retval;
}