Attached is a patch that introduces the format char 'k' to be replaced with
the kernel name. I like to have it in a callout script.
I've moved the build_kernel_name() back to namedev_name_device() since
we don't expect it growing cause of 'sdaj' :)
Attached is a patch against udev-008 to send out a D-BUS message when a
device node is added or removed.
Using D-BUS lingo, udev acquires the org.kernel.udev service and sends
out a NodeCreated or NodeDeleted signal on the
org.kernel.udev.NodeMonitor interface. Each signal carries two
parameters: the node in question and the corresponding sysfs path.
[Note: the D-BUS concepts of service, interface, object can be a bit
confusing at first glance]
An example program listening for these messages looks like this
#!/usr/bin/python
import dbus
import gtk
def udev_signal_received(dbus_iface, member, service, object_path, message):
[filename, sysfs_path] = message.get_args_list()
if member=='NodeCreated':
print 'Node %s created for %s'%(filename, sysfs_path)
elif member=='NodeDeleted':
print 'Node %s deleted for %s'%(filename, sysfs_path)
def main():
bus = dbus.Bus(dbus.Bus.TYPE_SYSTEM)
bus.add_signal_receiver(udev_signal_received,
'org.kernel.udev.NodeMonitor', # interface
'org.kernel.udev', # service
'/org/kernel/udev/NodeMonitor') # object
gtk.mainloop()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
and this is the output when hot-plugging some usb-storage.
[david@laptop udev-008]$ ~/node_monitor.py
Node /udev/sda created for /block/sda
Node /udev/sda1 created for /block/sda/sda1
Node /udev/sda1 deleted for /block/sda/sda1
Node /udev/sda deleted for /block/sda
The patch requires D-BUS 0.20 or later while the python example program
requires D-BUS from CVS as I only recently applied a patch against the
python bindings.
> > here is a experimental symlink creation patch - for discussion,
> > in which direction we should go.
> > It is possible now to define SYMLINK= after the NAME= in udev.rules.
> > The link is relative to the node, but the path is not optimized now
> > if the node and the link are in the same nested directory.
> > Only one link is supported, cause i need to sleep now :)
> >
> > 06-simple-symlink-creation.diff
> > simple symlink creation
> > reorganized udev-remove to have access to the symlink field
> > subdir creation/removal are functions now
> > udev-test.pl tests for link creation/removal
Here is a new version with relative link target path optimization
an better tests in udev-test.pl:
LABEL, BUS="scsi", vendor="IBM-ESXS", NAME="1/2/a/b/node", SYMLINK="1/2/c/d/symlink"
Dec 7 06:48:34 pim udev[13789]: create_node: symlink 'udev-root/1/2/c/d/symlink' to node '1/2/a/b/node' requested
Dec 7 06:48:34 pim udev[13789]: create_path: created 'udev-root/1/2/c'
Dec 7 06:48:34 pim udev[13789]: create_path: created 'udev-root/1/2/c/d'
Dec 7 06:48:34 pim udev[13789]: create_node: symlink(../../a/b/node, udev-root/1/2/c/d/symlink)
the older udev.config file is now called udev.rules.
This allows us to better control configuration values, and move away from
the environment variables.
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 00:12, Chris Larson wrote:
> udev fails to compile here unless I'm doing a KLIBC build. The reason
> appears to be that the normal limits.h in the gcc inc dir doesn't pull
> in linux/limits.h, whereas the limits.h out in the klibc include dirs
> does. I'd think it'd be best to add a #include <linux/limits.h> to
> udev.h directly, since it uses PATH_MAX.
No, don't include kernel headers directly if you can avoid it.
The problem you are referring to seems to be with old tool chains,
I have the same symptom with my s390 gcc-2.95/glibc-2.1.3.
Including <sys/param.h> instead of <limits.h> seems to fix it.
After getting a number of different crashes for udev reading broken
udev.config files, I decided to try to make the parser a little
more robust.
The behaviour is changed to stop reading the configuration file
and logging the broken entry instead of silently ignoring it (is
that good? It's easy to just print and continue).
All strcpy()'s to a fixed length string are now implicitly limited
to the bounds of the target string.
I kept the -ENODEV return code for now, not sure if there should be
different ones.
Unix file modes should be stored in a mode_t, not a standard type. At
the moment it is actually unsigned, in fact, not a signed integer.
Attached patch does an s/int mode/mode_t mode/ and cleans up the
results.
This patch adds a callout config type to udev, so external programs can be
called to get serial numbers or id's that are not available as a sysfs
attribute.
kay.sievers@vrfy.org