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| author | kay.sievers@vrfy.org <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2004-03-02 00:08:28 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> | 2005-04-26 21:35:06 -0700 |
| commit | dba8c18b8b7b5f4c6d79593df8179c02a78d020f (patch) | |
| tree | 7f59a73de5fdeb345bf31c56afda2080d3264389 /udevinfo.c | |
| parent | 8ea84a8a781c22f67def088eb9df581590393cda (diff) | |
[PATCH] clarify udevinfo device walk
It seems that the long attribute list can confuse the user.
Se here we print a few words on top the attributes.
Diffstat (limited to 'udevinfo.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | udevinfo.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/udevinfo.c b/udevinfo.c index 01c2a2a8ae..b15f174e40 100644 --- a/udevinfo.c +++ b/udevinfo.c @@ -149,7 +149,14 @@ static int print_device_chain(const char *path) retval = -1; goto exit; } - printf("\ndevice '%s' has major:minor %s", class_dev->path, attr->value); + + printf("\nudevinfo starts with the device the node belongs to and then walks up the\n" + "device chain to print for every device found all possibly useful attributes\n" + "in the udev key format.\n" + "Only attributes within one device section may be used in a rule to match the\n" + "device for which the node will be created.\n" + "\n"); + printf("device '%s' has major:minor %s", class_dev->path, attr->value); sysfs_close_attribute(attr); /* open sysfs class device directory and print all attributes */ |