[PATCH] experimental (very simple) SYMLINK creation

> > here is a experimental symlink creation patch - for discussion,
> > in which direction we should go.
> > It is possible now to define SYMLINK= after the NAME= in udev.rules.
> > The link is relative to the node, but the path is not optimized now
> > if the node and the link are in the same nested directory.
> > Only one link is supported, cause i need to sleep now :)
> >
> > 06-simple-symlink-creation.diff
> >   simple symlink creation
> >   reorganized udev-remove to have access to the symlink field
> >   subdir creation/removal are functions now
> >   udev-test.pl tests for link creation/removal

Here is a new version with relative link target path optimization
an better tests in udev-test.pl:

LABEL, BUS="scsi", vendor="IBM-ESXS", NAME="1/2/a/b/node", SYMLINK="1/2/c/d/symlink"

  Dec  7 06:48:34 pim udev[13789]: create_node: symlink 'udev-root/1/2/c/d/symlink' to node '1/2/a/b/node' requested
  Dec  7 06:48:34 pim udev[13789]: create_path: created 'udev-root/1/2/c'
  Dec  7 06:48:34 pim udev[13789]: create_path: created 'udev-root/1/2/c/d'
  Dec  7 06:48:34 pim udev[13789]: create_node: symlink(../../a/b/node, udev-root/1/2/c/d/symlink)

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/udev.h b/udev.h
index 01db44948..05f6b3c22 100644
--- a/udev.h
+++ b/udev.h
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ struct udevice {
 	int major;
 	int minor;
 	mode_t mode;
+	char symlink[NAME_SIZE];
 
 	/* fields that help us in building strings */
 	unsigned char bus_id[SYSFS_NAME_LEN];