From 26004fcc665d14220c5b15a15ee4b2dd5d4af314 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "kay.sievers@vrfy.org" Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:40:08 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [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 --- TODO | 1 - udev.8 | 10 +++++----- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index e227834f3..47275873c 100644 --- 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 0c461967d..7b4e17b5c 100644 --- 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 -- 2.30.2