udev problems

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 12:20 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> David Zeuthen (david at fubar.dk) said: 
> > Suggest that
> > 
> >  KERNEL="ttyUSB*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="pilot%e"
> > 
> > is better so we can handle multiple devices (the %e modifier for
> > 'enumerate' is rather new, see the udev man page for details).
> > 
> > It's not perfect though, because this will also create these symlinks
> > for non-PDA devices such as USB-to-serial devices. 
> > 
> > One thing is the fact that /dev/pilot, or /dev/pilot1 symlink appear, we
> > can probably live with this, another one is the console gains read/write
> > rights. I'm not sure this is a huge problem though, but there might be
> > threat scenarios?
> 
> We could do matching based on vendor/device IDs, surely?
> 

Indeed; you'll end up with a lot of udev rules though. I'm not sure
where the all the vendor/product ID's would come from though.

David