> Problem is, if you use the LABEL rule to match a device, like a SCSI
> vendor, then all of the partitions, as well as the main block device,
> will end up with the same name. That's why I added the "add the number"
> hack to the LABEL rule.
>
> So yes, your patch is correct in that we shouldn't always be adding the
> number to any match for LABEL (like for char devices), but if we do
> that, then we break partitions. Your '%' patch fixes this, but I'd just
> like to extend it a bit. Let me see what I can come up with...
Oh, I see. Do you mean something like this:
LABEL, BUS="usb", model="Creative Labs WebCam 3", NAME="webcam%n-%M:%m-test"
results in: "webcam0-81:0-test"
Nov 15 16:51:53 pim udev[16193]: get_class_dev: looking at /sys/class/video4linux/video0
Nov 15 16:51:53 pim udev[16193]: get_class_dev: class_dev->name = video0
Nov 15 16:51:53 pim udev[16193]: get_major_minor: dev = 81:0
Nov 15 16:51:53 pim udev[16193]: get_major_minor: found major = 81, minor = 0
Nov 15 16:51:53 pim udev[16193]: udev_add_device: name = webcam0-81:0-test
Nov 15 16:51:53 pim udev[16193]: create_node: mknod(/udev/webcam0-81:0-test, 020666, 81, 0)
implement printf-like placeholder support for NAME
%n-kernel number, %M-major number, %m-minor number
strcpy(udev->name, class_dev->name);
done:
+ /* substitute placeholder in NAME */
+ while (1) {
+ pos = strchr(udev->name, '%');
+ if (pos) {
+ strcpy(name, pos+2);
+ *pos = 0x00;
+ switch (pos[1]) {
+ case 'n':
+ dig = class_dev->name + strlen(class_dev->name);
+ while (isdigit(*(dig-1)))
+ dig--;
+ strcat(udev->name, dig);
+ dbg_parse("kernel number appended: %s", dig);
+ break;
+ case 'm':
+ sprintf(pos, "%u", udev->minor);
+ dbg_parse("minor number appended: %u", udev->minor);
+ break;
+ case 'M':
+ sprintf(pos, "%u", udev->major);
+ dbg_parse("major number appended: %u", udev->major);
+ break;
+ default:
+ dbg_parse("unknown substitution type: %%%c", pos[1]);
+ break;
+ }
+ strcat(udev->name, name);
+ } else
+ break;
+ }
+
/* mode was never set above */
if (!udev->mode) {
udev->mode = get_default_mode(class_dev);