On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 03:35, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a quick question about ID_SERIAL property. Are these meant to be > D-Bus object path compliant? Meaning they only contain a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _ > characters? It would be actually nice to use them directly as an unique > identifier without having to do extra transformations. Not really, it is usually just the string where different properties of a device are concatenated to a single string to create a useful symlink name. The string for a symlink can also contain valid utf8 sequences and "#+-.:=@_". Some users of these strings need values which are translatable back to the original string, so in some cases we escape all non-allowed chars by "\x..". We can not really stuff these things into a string that has only the characters allowed by D-Bus. You could only add a new variable, the current ones can not really be changed, as they are used in already established symlink names. Cheers, 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
