On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:23:37 -0700, peasthope wrote: > The following short transcript is from adapting the udevadm invocation > in http://wiki.debian.org/udev to investigate 1394 support in my Squeeze > system. Two questions. > > * What exactly is meant by "device specified by the devpath" in > the output? According to the udevadm man page, devpath is the value > assigned to --path; but that parameter is not present in the command > below. No devpath is specified.
I think it refers to a possible value/option you can define using modifiers. As per "man udevinfo": *** --path=devpath The devpath of the device to query. *** Being udev a hierarchical database, I guess this option allows the user to define a "starting point" to make the query. > * What exactly is '/class/ieee1394_protocol/raw1394'? > /class is not a directory in the filesystem and /dev/raw1394 is the > only 1394 device I've found. Dunno what it is, but it seems to be located under "/sys/class/*" stt008:~# ls -l /sys/class total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 backlight drwxr-xr-x 31 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 bdi drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 bsg drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 dma drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 dmi drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 graphics drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 hwmon drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 jul 12 07:44 i2c-adapter drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 ide_port drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 ieee1394 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 ieee1394_host drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 ieee1394_node drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 ieee1394_protocol drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 input drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 mem drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 misc drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 net drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 pci_bus drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 power_supply drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 ppdev drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 printer drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 rtc drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 scsi_device drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 scsi_disk drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 scsi_generic drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 scsi_host drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 sound drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 spi_master drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 thermal drwxr-xr-x 73 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 tty drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 usb_device drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 usb_endpoint drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 usb_host drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 usbmon drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 0 jul 12 07:44 vc drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 jul 12 07:43 vtconsole Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.07.12.14.58...@gmail.com