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| author | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> | 2006-09-07 11:08:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> | 2006-09-07 11:08:07 +0200 |
| commit | 4febf7f076fa4abaa36b0ae047aa893b1334fc93 (patch) | |
| tree | f2c0755dd87918e505c1431d9555d2901828ace5 /udev.xml | |
| parent | 070cdac978bb34080094fdb357e88d83c849f4b9 (diff) | |
man: add $attr{} section about symlinks
Diffstat (limited to 'udev.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | udev.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ <term><option>$id</option>, <option>%b</option></term> <listitem> <para>The name of the device matched while searching the devpath upwards for - <option>SUBSYSTEMS</option>, <option>KERNELS</option> <option>DRIVERS</option> and <option>ATTRS</option>. + <option>SUBSYSTEMS</option>, <option>KERNELS</option>, <option>DRIVERS</option> and <option>ATTRS</option>. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -414,7 +414,12 @@ <varlistentry> <term><option>$attr{<replaceable>file</replaceable>}</option>, <option>%s{<replaceable>file</replaceable>}</option></term> <listitem> - <para>The value of a sysfs attribute found at the current or a parent device.</para> + <para>The value of a sysfs attribute found at the device, where + all keys of the rule have matched. If the matching device does not have + such an attribute, all devices along the chain of parents are searched + for a matching attribute. + If the attribute is a symlink, the last element of the symlink target is + returned as the value.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |