From 4b710f033e86c72dbcae345564257f3ecce9941b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "kay.sievers@vrfy.org" Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 06:18:54 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] man page with included placeholder list mention the printf-like support for string substitution in the NAME field --- udev.8 | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/udev.8 b/udev.8 index 79b74bf659..0dacde0f5c 100644 --- a/udev.8 +++ b/udev.8 @@ -72,6 +72,23 @@ calling external program, that returns a string to match .br keys: \fBBUS\fP, \fBPROGRAM\fP, \fBID\fP .P +The name field supports simple printf-like string subtitution: +.RS +.TP +.B %n +the "kernel number" of the device +for example, 'sda3' has a "kernel number" of '3' +.TP +.B %M +the kernel major number for the device +.TP +.B %m +the kernel minor number for the device +.TP +.B %b +the bus id for the device +.RE +.P A sample \fIudev.conf\fP might look like this: .sp .nf @@ -89,6 +106,9 @@ REPLACE, KERNEL="ttyUSB1", NAME="pda" # if /sbin/scsi_id returns "OEM 0815" device will be called disk1 CALLOUT, PROGRAM="/sbin/scsi_id" BUS="scsi", ID="OEM 0815" NAME="disk1" + +# USB webcams to be called webcam0, webcam1, ... +LABEL, BUS="usb", model="WebCam Version 3", NAME="webcam%n" .fi .P Permissions and ownership for the created device files may specified at -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf