On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:24:53AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > There should be a possibility to tell udev not to create a device node.
> >
> > device-mapper: Usually set up by libdevmapper (or EVMS tools) which
> > creates the device node on its own under /dev/mapper/<name>.
> >
> > With udev a second device is created named /dev/dm-<minor> which is not
> > really needed.
>
> Good point. Ok, I'll agree with you. Care to make up a patch for this
> kind of feature?
Yes, I can try.
There was no way to tell not to do anything so I created one. Errors
are signalled via negative return values, so I thought that a positive,
non-zero one could mean to ignore the device. I don't like it but
perhaps you have a better solution.
o change the parsing to get a key from the rule and sort it
into our list of known keys instead of expecting a special order
o the key to match a sysfs file must be prependend by 'SYSFS_' now
to match with the new parsing.
(The config must be changed, but it's a bit more descriptive too.)
o put names of fields in define's, like the name of the methods
o update all tests and the man page
As usual, when the stuff gets in the tree - here is a small
man page update and a TODO line removal.
mention multiple symlinks
update example with silly symlink rule :)
shorten example line to have less than 80 chars
remove "want symlink support" from TODO
I've never seen any project where the documentation is in sync with the
code at this early stage. Nice! So here is the patch to make it extra perfect :)
remove random indent to be consistent
style is "shell style"
s/wildcard/pattern/
mention negation char in character class
04-udev.8-tweak-numeric-id-text.diff
o change "return value" to "returned string"
o add textual owner/group example for udev.permissions
o mention klibc compile as special case for udev.permissions
o remove duplicated numeric owner clause
I want to bring the CALLOUT field ordering in line with the other
methods, cause the current parsing relies on the ordering it's good
to have it like the others. The BUS= is now the first expected field.
Also made the last two remaining field names to uppercase and the man page
callout example is updated.
here a new patch for the man page:
o namdev.permissions added
o corrected a few typos
o corrected text for config line format.
owner, group mode are only in namedev.permissions
(don't know what i was dreaming, while i wrote this :))