Author: bryan
Date: 2007-02-18 06:59:36 -0700 (Sun, 18 Feb 2007)
New Revision: 7926
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/chapter07/symlinks.xml
Log:
Fix part of #1963 (use ATTRS instead of SYSFS), add the note about the
backslash at the end of each line back into the book, and add a reference to
#1912 to the changelog entry from r7924.
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml 2007-02-18 02:16:25 UTC (rev 7925)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml 2007-02-18 13:59:36 UTC (rev 7926)
@@ -37,12 +37,25 @@
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>2007-02-18</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[bryan] - Fix obsolete syntax used in the example Udev rules
+ in section 7.12.2. Fixes the easy part of
+ <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1963">#1963</ulink>. Also re-add the
+ note about the backslash at the end of the udev rule lines.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>2007-02-17</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Use upstream's rule_generator rules exclusively for
NIC naming, and generate the rules before configuring the network
- script, so the user knows what NIC names to use.</para>
+ script, so the user knows what NIC names to use. Fixes the rest of
+ <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1912">#1912</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Change from writing CD symlink rules files directly
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter07/symlinks.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter07/symlinks.xml 2007-02-18 02:16:25 UTC (rev 7925)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter07/symlinks.xml 2007-02-18 13:59:36 UTC (rev 7926)
@@ -122,13 +122,25 @@
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat >
/etc/udev/rules.d/83-duplicate_devs.rules << EOF
<literal>
# Persistent symlinks for webcam and tuner
-KERNEL=="video*", SYSFS{idProduct}=="1910", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0d81", \
+KERNEL=="video*", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1910", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0d81", \
SYMLINK+="webcam"
-KERNEL=="video*", SYSFS{device}=="0x036f", SYSFS{vendor}=="0x109e", \
+KERNEL=="video*", ATTRS{device}=="0x036f", ATTRS{vendor}=="0x109e", \
SYMLINK+="tvtuner"
</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>
+ <note>
+ <para>Be aware that Udev does not recognize the backslash for line
+ continuation. This example works properly because both the backslash
+ and newline are ignored by the shell. This makes the shell send each
+ rule to cat on only one line. (The shell ignores this sequence because
+ the EOF string used in the here-document redirection is not enclosed in
+ either double or single quotes. For more details, see the bash(1)
+ manpage, and search it for "Here Documents".)</para>
+ <para>If modifying Udev rules with an editor, be sure to leave each
+ rule on one physical line.</para>
+ </note>
+
<para>The result is that <filename>/dev/video0</filename> and
<filename>/dev/video1</filename> devices still refer randomly to the tuner
and the web camera (and thus should never be used directly), but there are
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