libifp and the new udev (was: Re: PCMCIA & udev changes)

[Bill Nottingham]

Per Bjornsson (perbj at stanford.edu) said: 
> OK, on a more serious note, what actually drives the scripts there is
> the /etc/hotplug/usb.agent, which maps devices to hotplug actions using
> the various helper files (including those in /etc/hotplug/usb). Is this
> still the preferred way to go about adding some custom device
> initialization on hotplug?

No. In fact, /etc/hotplug/usb.agent is going away very very soon; it should
all be done via udev rules.

> using libusb. Thus we're not interested in making device nodes in /dev
> or so, the only thing the script is supposed to do is to set up the
> correct access permissions on the relevant /proc/bus/usb/* node.

That should be done easily enough - even if you're not making device nodes,
you'll still get notification of the device id being added, which should
allow you to do this.

Bill