From: kay.sievers@vrfy.org Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 08:08:28 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] clarify udevinfo device walk X-Git-Tag: 020~14 X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=dba8c18b8b7b5f4c6d79593df8179c02a78d020f [PATCH] clarify udevinfo device walk It seems that the long attribute list can confuse the user. Se here we print a few words on top the attributes. --- diff --git a/udevinfo.c b/udevinfo.c index 01c2a2a8a..b15f174e4 100644 --- a/udevinfo.c +++ b/udevinfo.c @@ -149,7 +149,14 @@ static int print_device_chain(const char *path) retval = -1; goto exit; } - printf("\ndevice '%s' has major:minor %s", class_dev->path, attr->value); + + printf("\nudevinfo starts with the device the node belongs to and then walks up the\n" + "device chain to print for every device found all possibly useful attributes\n" + "in the udev key format.\n" + "Only attributes within one device section may be used in a rule to match the\n" + "device for which the node will be created.\n" + "\n"); + printf("device '%s' has major:minor %s", class_dev->path, attr->value); sysfs_close_attribute(attr); /* open sysfs class device directory and print all attributes */