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List:       linux-hotplug
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] multple rules files support/symlink rules support
From:       Greg KH <greg () kroah ! com>
Date:       2004-01-21 23:51:07
Message-ID: 20040121235107.GC1958 () kroah ! com
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On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:13:00PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> Attached patch adds support for
> 
> - multiple rules files. You can now do
> 
> udev_rules="file1 dir2 file3 ..."
> 
> directory is scanned and all files are read. Currently it does not descend 
> into subdirs.

Ok, that is nice.  I like that part of the patch.

> - to make the above really useful it allows multiple rules with symlinks; all 
> rules are collected and applied (note 100 characters limit for total names 
> length currently). It still takes the first found name and warns if more were 
> seen.

I don't really understand this.  Can you give an example of how this
would work?  Why do we want to have multiple symlinks from different
rules?

thanks,

greg k-h


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