[PATCH] man-page mention multiple symlinks

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

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index e227834f3669eb673a729330e7a0e35cf20d0cef..47275873c89f1df8b382d01ffe167a3f67393341 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ greg@kroah.com
 
 - fix kernel name logic to handle devices like sdaj and such.
 - more documentation (can never have too much.)
-- add symlink generation and removal support
 - better partition support (it's a hack right now, maybe new libsysfs changes
   can help out a lot here.)
 - allow database to be queried by other programs

diff --git a/udev.8 b/udev.8
index 0c461967d2444f6bfc9093f6c804d2c10b5ecaad..7b4e17b5c41d1fab754f628b204eca766378e85e 100644 (file)
--- a/udev.8
+++ b/udev.8
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ file.
 Every line in the rules file define the mapping between device attributes and
 the device file name. It starts with a keyword defining the method used to
 match, followed by one ore more keys to compare and the filename for the
-device. Optional the name for a symlink targeting the node may specified.
+device. One ore more optional symlinks targeting the node may be specified.
 .br
 If no matching configuration is found, the default kernel device name
 is used.
@@ -175,11 +175,11 @@ NUMBER, BUS="pci", ID="00:0b.0", NAME="dsp"
 # USB mouse at third port of the second hub to be called mouse1
 TOPOLOGY, BUS="usb", PLACE="2.3", NAME="mouse1"
 
-# ttyUSB1 should always be called pda
-REPLACE, KERNEL="ttyUSB1", NAME="pda"
+# ttyUSB1 should always be called pda with two additional symlinks
+REPLACE, KERNEL="ttyUSB1", NAME="pda", SYMLINK="palmtop handheld"
 
-# USB webcams with symlinks to be called webcam0, webcam1, ...
-LABEL, BUS="usb", model="WebCam Version 3", NAME="video%n", SYMLINK="webcam%n"
+# multiple USB webcams with symlinks to be called webcam0, webcam1, ...
+LABEL, BUS="usb", model="WebCam V3", NAME="video%n", SYMLINK="webcam%n"
 .fi
 .P
 Permissions and ownership for the created device files may specified at