On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 21:18, Philip Tait <philip@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 04:50, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 04:21:35PM -1000, Philip Tait wrote: >>> I'm using 2.6.31 - that's pretty recent, right? >> >> That's a kernel version, not a udev version :) >> >> And even then, no, it's almost a year old, pretty old for a kernel >> release. >> >>> Do you know why '%e' was eliminated? >> >> What does the changelog say? > > The changelog in the openSUSE udev 146-3.3.1 package goes back to > 2006-07-04 - I could see no mention of %e being removed. However, > thanks to Kay's suggestion, seems like it is a moot point. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commit;h=c082b99acbc4b25fd133a88bfabf68eee23d7b0b It's just that it produced completely unpredictable results if you have multiple devices. There was no defined ordering. It's basically the same problem as the uselessness of the kernel device number, just all done again in userspace. 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
