Thanks a lot, such a stupid typo...;-) works like a charm now ! Sven On Friday 28 November 2008, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 17:08, Sven Fischer <sven.fischer@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm trying to use udev to dynamically generate mtd devices like mtdblock0 > > or mtd0 etc. I'm using Linux Kernel 2.6.24 on an ARM board. > > > > I have setup two rules but to no avail: > > > > ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="mtdblock[0-9]", SUBSYSTEMS=="block", > > NAME="mtdblock/%n", SYMLINK+="%k" > > ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="mtd[0-9]", SUBSYSTEMS=="mtd", NAME="%k" > > > > I tried to check them with udevtest, but it doesn't work. strace shows > > that it runs through the /sys subtree but it doesn't match anything > > against the above rules. > > > > I have the impression mtd isn't meant to work together with udev at all. > > Am I right ? Or what can be the reason for this issue. > > It should work fine with udev. But use SUBSYSTEM, not SUBSYSTEMS, you > match on the event not a parent device. > > And there is probably no reason to swap around node and symlink names, > just create the symlinks, if you want them, but don't needlessly > change the device node name. > > Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
