Thanks-To: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@access.unizh.ch>
While crawling through the udev manpage I noticed some typos and other
grammatical errors. English is not my native language, so I'm not sure
if I fixed everything right. I would be glad if any English-speaking
person could check this patch before applying.
Add UDEV_LOG to the man udev man page. Remove mention of specific
variables from the udevd/udevsend man page as we changed to pass
the whole environment.
Correct printed Usage: of udevtest and udevinfo.
Init the config in udevtest earlier to accept input with and without
the sysfs mount point.
Some broken ide drivers are generating high event traffic, with
add/remove events. With this attribute, it can be specified,
that the node is always available. It may be used in conjunction
with the new DRIVER= match to catch specific kernel device drivers.
This makes the udev operation completely lockless by storing a
file for every node in /dev/.udevdb/* This solved the problem
with deadlocking concurrent udev processes waiting for each other
to release the file lock under heavy load.
We once implemented the devfsd feature to set the owner of a device node
to the "local" user. This was before we had the dev.d/ scripts. We discussed
a similar issue with D-BUS recently and this should be better handled depending
on the distributions way to do such a thing.
I'm for removing this here as this can be easily covered by a dev.d/
script.
Here is the patch if nobody objects :)
Here we remove all the sysfs sleep loops from udev as wait_for_sysfs
will do this for us and any other hotplug user. We still keep a small
blacklist of subsystems we don't care about but any missing entry here
will no longer lead to a spinning udev waiting for files.
On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 17:45 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 16:46 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:
>
> Nice, I like it. It's a easy way to group device nodes of the same type,
> but coming from different kernel subsystems.
>
That's a good way of putting it, yeah.
> > Here's a patch against udev-030 that can help create compatibility
> > symlinks like /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrom1 etc. The patch introduces a new
> > substitution type %C (for Compatibility) that can be used as follows
>
> I suggest using %e for enumeration here, cause "compatibility" can
> easily be misunderstood.
>
Good point, I've changed that.
> And we need a few lines added to the man page at udev.8.in :)
>
Done. I've also added an example.
Also, Kay pointed out offlist that the rules can be written to not
require a shell script; this actually works
KERNEL="sr*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom%e"
KERNEL="scd*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom%e"
KERNEL="pcd*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom%e"
KERNEL="hd[a-z]", PROGRAM="/bin/cat /proc/ide/%k/media", RESULT="cdrom", NAME="\%k", SYMLINK="cdrom%e"
KERNEL="fd[0-9]", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="floppy%e"
KERNEL="hd[a-z]", PROGRAM="/bin/cat /proc/ide/%k/media", RESULT="floppy", NAME=\"%k", SYMLINK="floppy%e"
New patch is attached.
David
Here we catch up, after the default config changes.
o the man page is updated to reflect the new default config
o /etc/udev/rules.d/ + permissions.d/ dirs are created now
o udev.rules is installed in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
so the user can easily order the files by prepending a number.
(RedHat has the same name in the last rpm.)
o defined directory names in the Makefile are all without slashes now,
not the first half with and the remaining without.
o all binaries are uninstalled now
o leading slashes in config values are now removed or prepended while the
config is parsed, so we are more robust if the usere changes something.
o replaced the macros from udev_config.c with real code, cause we can
skip if the value matches and not useless iterate over the remaining
fields.
o config parsing errors are logged with info() now, fixes the bug where
we report a error with debug_parse(), even when there isn't one
