Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933008AbXIFVyG (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 17:54:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932560AbXIFVxr (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 17:53:47 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:45915 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932944AbXIFVxp (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 17:53:45 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Manuel Reimer Subject: Re: udev: Inconsistency between %b and %p? Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:59:10 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p4fd4c237.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070809 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 827 Lines: 23 Andreas Schwab wrote: > Manuel Reimer writes: > >> For me, this looks like a bug, or am I wrong? > > It's a feature. It's documented. man udev says: | The name of the device matched while searching the devpath upwards | for SUBSYSTEMS, KERNELS, DRIVERS and ATTRS. What exactly does this mean? Why should anyone need the name of a device, he didn't search for? Could someone give me an example, where someone may be interested in an device name of an device, he just used, to narrow his rule to the one device, he is looking for. Yours Manuel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/