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man-page mention multiple symlinks

udev Kay Sievers 1 participant 1 message Dec 10, 2003

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As usual, when the stuff gets in the tree - here is a small man page update and a TODO line removal.

thanks,
Kay

01-man-page_multiple_symlinks.diff
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 +0 -1
diff -Nru a/TODO b/TODO
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 
 - 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
udev.8 +5 -5
diff -Nru a/udev.8 b/udev.8
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 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 @@
 # 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