udev rules -- file names -- just wondering??

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Aug 2 17:39:09 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 12:35 -0400, William Case wrote:
> I am looking at /etc/udev/rules.d, particularly 90-alsa.rules and
> noticed that all the udev rules files are preceded by a number in
> their
> name.  Is that number significant?  Or is it used just to avoid
> duplicate names?

The number indicates the order in which the rules are applied, similar
to the number preceding startup/shutdown scripts in /etc/rc?.d

poc




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