Hello...Martin, Kay, and thoughts on my question regarding udev-extras?
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Dan Streetman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am creating udev rules for some system units I'm responsible for > enabling Linux on; specifically these systems have multiple serial > ports with labels on the ports like "A", "B", "C", etc. However on > many of the units the hardware doesn't match the labelling so ports > "C" and above usually do not match the right serial node, i.e. while a > port labeled "C" should be /dev/ttyS2 it isn't. > > The initial udev rule I set up for one system is below - just as an > example of what I'm planning on creating. As you can see this > particular system has a PCI serial card, with the middle 2 ports > actually wired up to the rear panel and labeled "C" and "D". The > other 4 ports aren't actually wired up, so this rule could be changed > to ignore those instead of creating nodes for them. > > Anyway, my question is, is udev-extras the appropriate place for this > to live? I would like to put the rules into a standard location that > all distros can pull from. It seems like DeviceKit and udev-extras is > the direction that everything is going in, but I'm not sure if > udev-extras is intended to hold system-specific quirk rules like this. > If it is, then I would like to get this added once we finish up all > the rules for our system units. Also, any comments/suggestions on how > I'm writing the rules are welcome. > > Thanks! > -- > > > SUBSYSTEM!="tty", GOTO="ibmrss-serial-end" > PROGRAM="/bin/cat $sys/class/dmi/id/board_vendor" > RESULT!="IBM*", GOTO="ibmrss-serial-end" > > PROGRAM="/bin/cat $sys/class/dmi/id/board_version" > RESULT=="4800783", GOTO="ibmrss-serial-4800783" > > LABEL="ibmrss-serial-4800783" > DEVPATH=="/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.1/0000:04:0b.1/tty/ttyS2", > NAME="ttyS6" > DEVPATH=="/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.1/0000:04:0b.1/tty/ttyS3", > NAME="ttyS7" > DEVPATH=="/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.1/0000:04:0b.1/tty/ttyS4", > NAME="ttyS2" > DEVPATH=="/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.1/0000:04:0b.1/tty/ttyS5", > NAME="ttyS3" > DEVPATH=="/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.1/0000:04:0b.1/tty/ttyS6", > NAME="ttyS4" > DEVPATH=="/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.1/0000:04:0b.1/tty/ttyS7", > NAME="ttyS5" > GOTO="ibmrss-serial-end" > > > LABEL="ibmrss-serial-end" > _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
