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diff --git a/extras/path_id b/extras/path_id
index 8391f2e58..4ac718717 100755
--- a/extras/path_id
+++ b/extras/path_id
@@ -1,19 +1,22 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-#set -x
 
-# this script should provide the shortest possible unique hardware path 
-# to a block device
+# provide the shortest possible unique hardware path to a block device
+# for the udev persistent disk device naming scheme
 #
+# Copyright (C) 2005 SUSE Linux Products GmbH
+# Author:
+#	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
+#
+#	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+#	under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+#	Free Software Foundation version 2 of the License.
+#
+# to be called from a udev rule to return the name for a symlink
+#	DEVPATH=/block/sda/sda3 path_id
+#	path_id <devpath>
 
-# Horrible script. Handle with extreme care.
-
-# to be called from udev
-# DEVPATH=/block/sda/sda3 $0  (or similar)
-# $0 /block/sda
-# $0 /sys/block/sda
-
-# example for all:
-# for i in `find /sys/block -name dev` ;do DEVPATH="`echo $i | sed -e 's@^/sys\|/dev@@g'`" $0 ; done
+# example for all block devices on a system:
+#	for i in `find /sys/block -name dev` ;do DEVPATH="`echo $i | sed -e 's@^/sys\|/dev@@g'`" path_id ; done
 
 # examples:
 # SCSI cdrom
@@ -55,9 +58,7 @@
 # then firewire sbp2
 # then the rest
 
-PATH=/lib/klibc/bin #/usr:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
 SYSFS=/sys
-export PATH
 RESULT=1
 CDROM=
 TYPE=