[PATCH] update RFC-dev.d docs due to DEVNODE to DEVNAME change

[elogind.git] / docs / RFC-dev.d

diff --git a/docs/RFC-dev.d b/docs/RFC-dev.d
index 4985e841be6526b0c148fc042f117cd46f556e14..1aca1aa3939ee646e70cd78a4f87edb83a6284bd 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/RFC-dev.d
+++ b/docs/RFC-dev.d
@@ -12,16 +12,17 @@ the system due to a device being removed.
 The directory tree under /etc/dev.d/ dictate which program is run first,
 and when some programs will be run or not.  The device naming program
 calls the programs in the following order:
 The directory tree under /etc/dev.d/ dictate which program is run first,
 and when some programs will be run or not.  The device naming program
 calls the programs in the following order:

-       /etc/dev.d/DEVNODE/*.dev
+       /etc/dev.d/DEVNAME/*.dev

        /etc/dev.d/SUBSYSTEM/*.dev
        /etc/dev.d/default/*.dev
 
 The .dev extension is needed to allow automatic package managers to
 deposit backup files in these directories safely.
 
        /etc/dev.d/SUBSYSTEM/*.dev
        /etc/dev.d/default/*.dev
 
 The .dev extension is needed to allow automatic package managers to
 deposit backup files in these directories safely.
 

-The DEVNODE name is the name of the /dev file that has been created.
-This value, including the /dev path, will also be exported to userspace
-in the DEVNODE environment variable.
+The DEVNAME name is the name of the /dev file that has been created, or
+for network devices, the name of the newly named network device.  This
+value, including the /dev path, will also be exported to userspace in
+the DEVNAME environment variable.

 
 The SUBSYSTEM name is the name of the sysfs subsystem that originally
 generated the hotplug event that caused the device naming program to
 
 The SUBSYSTEM name is the name of the sysfs subsystem that originally
 generated the hotplug event that caused the device naming program to


@@ -40,8 +41,8 @@ description of this
 An equivalent shell script that would do this same kind of action would
 be:
        DIR="/etc/dev.d"
 An equivalent shell script that would do this same kind of action would
 be:
        DIR="/etc/dev.d"

-       export DEVNODE="whatever_dev_name_udev_just_gave"
-       for I in "${DIR}/$DEVNODE/"*.dev "${DIR}/$1/"*.dev "${DIR}/default/"*.dev ; do
+       export DEVNAME="whatever_dev_name_udev_just_gave"
+       for I in "${DIR}/$DEVNAME/"*.dev "${DIR}/$1/"*.dev "${DIR}/default/"*.dev ; do

                if [ -f $I ]; then $I $1 ; fi
        done
        exit 1;
                if [ -f $I ]; then $I $1 ; fi
        done
        exit 1;