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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] serial in /sys
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:00:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121130100023.340f4579@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKpSnp+5a5CbMiMH4rx4Acg5KTy1kF8ViL0iS_wysLfmH9uREA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:07:11 +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote:

> This is indeed the device I meant, and the serial number is the
> "E68911000519" substring. But this symlink exists because udev created
> it. I need to somehow dig it out of /sys, not out of /dev. IOW, how did
> udev retrieved the information to create the symlink?

This is all done in /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules

ENV{SERIAL} seems to be the key, but udev rules use variables rather than
accessing /sys directly.

I really like udev as it makes just about anything you want to do easy,
it's a shame to watch it getting lost.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Does someone know the cheats for WindowsXP?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-30 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-29 17:57 [gentoo-user] serial in /sys Jorge Almeida
2012-11-29 18:35 ` Marco Bonfiglio
2012-11-29 19:07   ` Jorge Almeida
2012-11-29 22:09     ` Kevin Chadwick
2012-11-30 10:00     ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2012-11-30 12:48       ` Jorge Almeida
2012-11-29 19:20 ` Bruce Hill
2012-11-29 19:31   ` Jorge Almeida
2012-11-29 20:20     ` Bruce Hill
2012-11-29 20:56       ` Jorge Almeida
2012-11-29 22:35     ` Walter Dnes
2012-11-30  0:28       ` Jorge Almeida
2012-11-30  3:09         ` Walter Dnes
2012-11-30  9:58           ` Jorge Almeida
2012-12-01  3:47             ` Walter Dnes
2012-12-01  4:55               ` Joshua Murphy
2012-12-01  9:11                 ` Jorge Almeida
2012-12-01  9:08               ` Jorge Almeida
2012-11-30  0:56 ` James Cloos
2012-11-30 18:02 ` Volker Armin Hemmann

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