Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: devfs is dead, let's move on

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 12:44 -0700, Duncan wrote:
> Martin Schlemmer posted <1120744545.6560.18.camel@lycan.lan>, excerpted
> below,  on Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:55:45 +0200:
> 
> > Lastly on an unrelated note ... I have a rule:
> > 
> > -----
> > # cat /etc/udev/rules.d/40-dm.rules
> > KERNEL="dm-[0-9]*", PROGRAM="/sbin/devmap_name %M %m", NAME="mapper/%c", SYMLINK="%c"
> > -----
> > 
> > And in theory it should be the last rule to set the name ... however the
> > default one in 50-udev.rules overrides it, and I have to add
> > OPTIONS="last_rule"
> 
> Why would a rule applied in 40-x.rules be expected to stick when
> 50-x.rules runs after it and has a conflicting rule?
> 
> Change the 40- to 60- and it should work.  Of course, you are already
> using another alternative, the last_rule option.
> 

According to the manpage:

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  NAME   The name of the node to be created, or the name, the network interface should be renamed to.  Only
         one rule can set the a name, all later rules with a NAME key will be ignored.
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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa


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