udev problems

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Mon Sep 27 16:58:25 UTC 2004


What about some app, say "system-config-udev" in which people easily
could create (and submit) new udev rules?

So that you started it, hit "start seach", connected the device, hit
stop seach, and it would be able to find the vendor/id strings?

man, 27.09.2004 kl. 18.46 skrev 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
> 
> 





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