Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 013 release

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:47:15PM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Clay Haapala wrote:
> 
> >Is the act of printing/syslogging a rule in an of itself? 
> 
> I haven't looked at the capabilities in a while.  Can you specify a 
> default rule if nothing else matches?

The "default rule" is to use the kernel name to name the device.  That
one is built in.

> Can you, in one rule, specify another rule?  (Kind of like iptables
> jump targets).

No.

> If so, then this would allow massive flexibility.

And massive complexity :)

Why would you want to have a rule specify another (in the current
syntax)?  These rules aren't that complex, and anything that does grow
to be complex should be shoved out into a separate script/program that a
rule can then call.

Does this help?

thanks,

greg k-h
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