Currently a property in the form of FOO=bar is stored as " FOO=bar", i.e. the property name contains a leading space. That's quite hard to spot.
This patch discards all extra whitespaces but the first one which is required by libudev's hwdb_add_property. --- src/udev/udevadm-hwdb.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/udev/udevadm-hwdb.c b/src/udev/udevadm-hwdb.c index 3ca755e..dcc6e0f 100644 --- a/src/udev/udevadm-hwdb.c +++ b/src/udev/udevadm-hwdb.c @@ -428,6 +428,10 @@ static int insert_data(struct trie *trie, struct udev_list *match_list, value[0] = '\0'; value++; + /* libudev requires properties to start with a space */ + while(line[0] != '\0' && isblank(line[1])) + line++; + if (line[0] == '\0' || value[0] == '\0') { log_error("Error, empty key or value '%s' in '%s':", line, filename); return -EINVAL; -- 2.1.0 _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel