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diff --git a/docs/RFC-dev.d b/docs/RFC-dev.d index 4985e841be..1aca1aa393 100644 --- a/docs/RFC-dev.d +++ b/docs/RFC-dev.d @@ -12,16 +12,17 @@ the system due to a device being removed. The directory tree under /etc/dev.d/ dictate which program is run first, and when some programs will be run or not. The device naming program calls the programs in the following order: - /etc/dev.d/DEVNODE/*.dev + /etc/dev.d/DEVNAME/*.dev /etc/dev.d/SUBSYSTEM/*.dev /etc/dev.d/default/*.dev The .dev extension is needed to allow automatic package managers to deposit backup files in these directories safely. -The DEVNODE name is the name of the /dev file that has been created. -This value, including the /dev path, will also be exported to userspace -in the DEVNODE environment variable. +The DEVNAME name is the name of the /dev file that has been created, or +for network devices, the name of the newly named network device. This +value, including the /dev path, will also be exported to userspace in +the DEVNAME environment variable. The SUBSYSTEM name is the name of the sysfs subsystem that originally generated the hotplug event that caused the device naming program to @@ -40,8 +41,8 @@ description of this An equivalent shell script that would do this same kind of action would be: DIR="/etc/dev.d" - export DEVNODE="whatever_dev_name_udev_just_gave" - for I in "${DIR}/$DEVNODE/"*.dev "${DIR}/$1/"*.dev "${DIR}/default/"*.dev ; do + export DEVNAME="whatever_dev_name_udev_just_gave" + for I in "${DIR}/$DEVNAME/"*.dev "${DIR}/$1/"*.dev "${DIR}/default/"*.dev ; do if [ -f $I ]; then $I $1 ; fi done exit 1; |