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| author | Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> | 2010-08-27 16:54:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> | 2010-08-27 16:56:32 +0200 |
| commit | 83184d008ba23724fd30996440534c0633a0d0aa (patch) | |
| tree | 050936caed597f71449ad749671911404c55c740 /udev/udev.xml | |
| parent | 38b5ccbcf7f3643ea8180a8186cfe3e5fa9cb983 (diff) | |
udev(7) manpage: Fix description of $attr
Fix the manpage to describe the real behaviour of $attr: It doesn't search all
parent devices any more, just the one selected by KERNELS etc.
https://launchpad.net/bugs/348513
Diffstat (limited to 'udev/udev.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | udev/udev.xml | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/udev/udev.xml b/udev/udev.xml index 336b203bec..6085dfff24 100644 --- a/udev/udev.xml +++ b/udev/udev.xml @@ -578,8 +578,9 @@ <listitem> <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, follow the chain of parent devices and use the value - of the first attribute that matches. + such an attribute, and a previous KERNELS, SUBSYSTEMS, DRIVERS, or + ATTRS test selected a parent device, use the attribute from that + parent device. If the attribute is a symlink, the last element of the symlink target is returned as the value.</para> </listitem> |