udev problems

[Dwaine Garden]

David Zeuthen wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 12:20 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
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>>David Zeuthen (david at fubar.dk) said: 
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>>>Suggest that
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>>> KERNEL="ttyUSB*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="pilot%e"
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>>>is better so we can handle multiple devices (the %e modifier for
>>>'enumerate' is rather new, see the udev man page for details).
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>>>It's not perfect though, because this will also create these symlinks
>>>for non-PDA devices such as USB-to-serial devices. 
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>>>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?
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>>We could do matching based on vendor/device IDs, surely?
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>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.
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>David
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ubs.ids...  ???  It's a good start..

Dwaine.