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
next prev parent 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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