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-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml15
-rw-r--r--chapter07/symlinks.xml16
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 6936ca0ef..090031ade 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -37,12 +37,25 @@
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>2007-02-18</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[bryan] - Fix obsolete syntax used in the example Udev rules
+ in section 7.12.2. Fixes the easy part of
+ <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1963">#1963</ulink>. Also re-add the
+ note about the backslash at the end of the udev rule lines.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>2007-02-17</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Use upstream's rule_generator rules exclusively for
NIC naming, and generate the rules before configuring the network
- script, so the user knows what NIC names to use.</para>
+ script, so the user knows what NIC names to use. Fixes the rest of
+ <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1912">#1912</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>[bryan] - Change from writing CD symlink rules files directly
diff --git a/chapter07/symlinks.xml b/chapter07/symlinks.xml
index 1407d553f..5846a46e0 100644
--- a/chapter07/symlinks.xml
+++ b/chapter07/symlinks.xml
@@ -122,13 +122,25 @@
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/udev/rules.d/83-duplicate_devs.rules &lt;&lt; EOF
<literal>
# Persistent symlinks for webcam and tuner
-KERNEL=="video*", SYSFS{idProduct}=="1910", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0d81", \
+KERNEL=="video*", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1910", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0d81", \
SYMLINK+="webcam"
-KERNEL=="video*", SYSFS{device}=="0x036f", SYSFS{vendor}=="0x109e", \
+KERNEL=="video*", ATTRS{device}=="0x036f", ATTRS{vendor}=="0x109e", \
SYMLINK+="tvtuner"
</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>
+ <note>
+ <para>Be aware that Udev does not recognize the backslash for line
+ continuation. This example works properly because both the backslash
+ and newline are ignored by the shell. This makes the shell send each
+ rule to cat on only one line. (The shell ignores this sequence because
+ the EOF string used in the here-document redirection is not enclosed in
+ either double or single quotes. For more details, see the bash(1)
+ manpage, and search it for "Here Documents".)</para>
+ <para>If modifying Udev rules with an editor, be sure to leave each
+ rule on one physical line.</para>
+ </note>
+
<para>The result is that <filename>/dev/video0</filename> and
<filename>/dev/video1</filename> devices still refer randomly to the tuner
and the web camera (and thus should never be used directly), but there are