man page with included placeholder list
06-udev.8-placeholder.diff
mention the printf-like support for string substitution in the NAME field
thanks,
Kay
udev.8 renamed from udev/udev.8 +20 -0
@@ -72,6 +72,23 @@ .br keys: \fBBUS\fP, \fBPROGRAM\fP, \fBID\fP .P +The name field supports simple printf-like string subtitution: +.RS +.TP +.B %n +the "kernel number" of the device +for example, 'sda3' has a "kernel number" of '3' +.TP +.B %M +the kernel major number for the device +.TP +.B %m +the kernel minor number for the device +.TP +.B %b +the bus id for the device +.RE +.P A sample \fIudev.conf\fP might look like this: .sp .nf
@@ -89,6 +106,9 @@ # if /sbin/scsi_id returns "OEM 0815" device will be called disk1 CALLOUT, PROGRAM="/sbin/scsi_id" BUS="scsi", ID="OEM 0815" NAME="disk1" + +# USB webcams to be called webcam0, webcam1, ... +LABEL, BUS="usb", model="WebCam Version 3", NAME="webcam%n" .fi .P Permissions and ownership for the created device files may specified at