cosmetic udev glitches

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Tue Mar 2 16:40:16 PST 2010


On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 04:29:41PM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 02:47:22PM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> >> Can you try the patch below that uses the name attribute instead of the
> >> value from the uevent? I ran it through a little test app, but not in X.
> >>
> >> From c01a4e6dce7196a60b5247dde78054b27e004494 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> From: Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com>
> >> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:42:22 -0800
> >> Subject: [PATCH] config/udev: Get product name from attribute instead of uevent
> >>
> >> The input device product name in the kernel uevent has embedded quotes
> >> that aren't expected here. Use the sysfs name attribute instead, which
> >> does not suffer this problem.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  config/udev.c |    2 +-
> >>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/config/udev.c b/config/udev.c
> >> index 69257e9..54306ef 100644
> >> --- a/config/udev.c
> >> +++ b/config/udev.c
> >> @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ device_added(struct udev_device *udev_device)
> >>
> >>      parent = udev_device_get_parent(udev_device);
> >>      if (parent)
> >> -        name = udev_device_get_property_value(parent, "NAME");
> >> +        name = udev_device_get_sysattr_value(parent, "name");
> >>      if (!name)
> >>          name = "(unnamed)";
> >>      else
> >> --
> >> 1.6.6.1
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> >
> > tested too.
> 
> Is this on rawhide with udev-151? When I tried it against the udev on
> f12, it was replacing the spaces in the name with underscores. I can't
> figure out why, but when I ran it against a vanilla udev 145 or git,
> it worked fine.

This was on F12 (X server from git) and I don't see the underscore issue you
mentioned. Updates-testing from yesterday.
Not quite sure where that comes from tbh.

Cheers,
  Peter



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