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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: Clay Haapala <chaapala@cisco.com>,
	Nuno Silva <nuno.silva@vgertech.com>,
	linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 013 release
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:12:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040114211229.GB6650@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4005AAD3.4010301@nortelnetworks.com>

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:47:15PM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Clay Haapala wrote:
> 
> >Is the act of printing/syslogging a rule in an of itself? 
> 
> I haven't looked at the capabilities in a while.  Can you specify a 
> default rule if nothing else matches?

The "default rule" is to use the kernel name to name the device.  That
one is built in.

> Can you, in one rule, specify another rule?  (Kind of like iptables
> jump targets).

No.

> If so, then this would allow massive flexibility.

And massive complexity :)

Why would you want to have a rule specify another (in the current
syntax)?  These rules aren't that complex, and anything that does grow
to be complex should be shoved out into a separate script/program that a
rule can then call.

Does this help?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-14 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-13 23:52 Greg KH
2004-01-14  5:15 ` Nuno Silva
2004-01-14 17:15   ` Greg KH
2004-01-14 17:46     ` Chris Friesen
2004-01-14 19:23       ` Nuno Silva
2004-01-14 21:14         ` Greg KH
2004-01-15  7:48           ` Nuno Silva
2004-01-15 23:03             ` Greg KH
2004-01-14 20:34       ` Clay Haapala
2004-01-14 20:47         ` Chris Friesen
2004-01-14 21:12           ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-01-14 21:10         ` Greg KH

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