On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 05:20 +0000, Vladimir Dronnikov wrote: > Changing the meaning of '>' is for cases when one does not want to > have everything under /dev itself. E.g. all ALSA audio devices should > (historically at least) be placed in /dev/snd and not in /dev. Current > mdev would make 2 copies of such devices if a rule had exist to place > them to /dev/snd. Because '>' means to redirect/move in other common > OS places I found it reasonable to change its meaning. And '+' was > found again rather reasonable for _add a symlink_.
The problem is we need backwards compability. your current mdev.conf should still work. Denys does not know if '>' breaks current systems since he dont use mdev. > Again, let us decide what mdev is for! I think your regexp patch gives alot for the bucks. I think this few extra bytes could replace atleast 2 of my scripts. (new file allocates at least 4kb so its a big win for me) Thanks! -nc _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
