the custom rules directory <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/</filename>
and the temporary rules directory <filename>/dev/.udev/rules.d/</filename>.
All rule files are sorted and processed in lexical order, regardless
- in which of these directories they live. Every line in the rules file contains at least
- one key value pair. There are two kind of keys, match and assignment keys.
+ in which of these directories they live.</para>
+
+ <para>Rule files are required to have a unique name, duplicate file names
+ are ignored. Files in <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/</filename> have precedence
+ over files with the same name in <filename>/lib/udev/rules.d/</filename>. This
+ can be used to ignore a default rules file if needed.</para>
+
+ <para>Every line in the rules file contains at least one key value pair.
+ There are two kind of keys, match and assignment keys.
If all match keys are matching against its value, the rule gets applied and the
assign keys get the specified value assigned.</para>
/* custom rules location for testing */
add_matching_files(&name_list, udev_rules_dir, ".rules");
} else {
- /* read default rules */
- add_matching_files(&name_list, UDEV_PREFIX "/lib/udev/rules.d", ".rules");
-
/* read user/custom rules */
- add_matching_files(&sort_list, SYSCONFDIR "/udev/rules.d", ".rules");
+ add_matching_files(&name_list, SYSCONFDIR "/udev/rules.d", ".rules");
/* read dynamic/temporary rules */
strlcpy(filename, udev_root, sizeof(filename));
}
add_matching_files(&sort_list, filename, ".rules");
+ /* read default rules */
+ add_matching_files(&sort_list, UDEV_PREFIX "/lib/udev/rules.d", ".rules");
+
/* sort all rules files by basename into list of files */
list_for_each_entry_safe(sort_loop, sort_tmp, &sort_list, node) {
const char *sort_base = strrchr(sort_loop->name, '/');
if (name_base == NULL)
continue;
+ if (strcmp(name_base, sort_base) == 0) {
+ info("rule file '%s' already added, ignoring '%s'\n",
+ name_loop->name, sort_loop->name);
+ list_del(&sort_loop->node);
+ free(sort_loop);
+ sort_loop = NULL;
+ continue;
+ }
+
if (strcmp(name_base, sort_base) > 0)
break;
}
- list_move_tail(&sort_loop->node, &name_loop->node);
+ if (sort_loop != NULL)
+ list_move_tail(&sort_loop->node, &name_loop->node);
}
}