We once implemented the devfsd feature to set the owner of a device node
to the "local" user. This was before we had the dev.d/ scripts. We discussed
a similar issue with D-BUS recently and this should be better handled depending
on the distributions way to do such a thing.
I'm for removing this here as this can be easily covered by a dev.d/
script.
Here is the patch if nobody objects :)
Here we remove all the sysfs sleep loops from udev as wait_for_sysfs
will do this for us and any other hotplug user. We still keep a small
blacklist of subsystems we don't care about but any missing entry here
will no longer lead to a spinning udev waiting for files.
On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 17:45 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 16:46 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:
>
> Nice, I like it. It's a easy way to group device nodes of the same type,
> but coming from different kernel subsystems.
>
That's a good way of putting it, yeah.
> > Here's a patch against udev-030 that can help create compatibility
> > symlinks like /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrom1 etc. The patch introduces a new
> > substitution type %C (for Compatibility) that can be used as follows
>
> I suggest using %e for enumeration here, cause "compatibility" can
> easily be misunderstood.
>
Good point, I've changed that.
> And we need a few lines added to the man page at udev.8.in :)
>
Done. I've also added an example.
Also, Kay pointed out offlist that the rules can be written to not
require a shell script; this actually works
KERNEL="sr*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom%e"
KERNEL="scd*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom%e"
KERNEL="pcd*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom%e"
KERNEL="hd[a-z]", PROGRAM="/bin/cat /proc/ide/%k/media", RESULT="cdrom", NAME="\%k", SYMLINK="cdrom%e"
KERNEL="fd[0-9]", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="floppy%e"
KERNEL="hd[a-z]", PROGRAM="/bin/cat /proc/ide/%k/media", RESULT="floppy", NAME=\"%k", SYMLINK="floppy%e"
New patch is attached.
David
Here we catch up, after the default config changes.
o the man page is updated to reflect the new default config
o /etc/udev/rules.d/ + permissions.d/ dirs are created now
o udev.rules is installed in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
so the user can easily order the files by prepending a number.
(RedHat has the same name in the last rpm.)
o defined directory names in the Makefile are all without slashes now,
not the first half with and the remaining without.
o all binaries are uninstalled now
o leading slashes in config values are now removed or prepended while the
config is parsed, so we are more robust if the usere changes something.
o replaced the macros from udev_config.c with real code, cause we can
skip if the value matches and not useless iterate over the remaining
fields.
o config parsing errors are logged with info() now, fixes the bug where
we report a error with debug_parse(), even when there isn't one
