From f1db055ab2e349ce22254562faaece66d6a4a873 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "christophe@saout.de" Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 00:55:28 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] add IGNORE rule type On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:24:53AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > There should be a possibility to tell udev not to create a device node. > > > > device-mapper: Usually set up by libdevmapper (or EVMS tools) which > > creates the device node on its own under /dev/mapper/. > > > > With udev a second device is created named /dev/dm- which is not > > really needed. > > Good point. Ok, I'll agree with you. Care to make up a patch for this > kind of feature? Yes, I can try. There was no way to tell not to do anything so I created one. Errors are signalled via negative return values, so I thought that a positive, non-zero one could mean to ignore the device. I don't like it but perhaps you have a better solution. --- udev.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'udev.c') diff --git a/udev.c b/udev.c index bbff89ba..116acf53 100644 --- a/udev.c +++ b/udev.c @@ -221,6 +221,9 @@ exit_sysbus: sysbus_disconnect(); exit: + if (retval > 0) + retval = 0; + return -retval; } -- cgit 1.2.3-korg