udev weirdness

Konstantin Svist fry.kun at gmail.com
Wed Feb 18 23:40:50 UTC 2009


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Konstantin Svist wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Using the tutorial at http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html,
>> I've written a custom udev rule for my Zalman HD135 case - specifically,
>> for the built-in VFD + IR receiver. The rule looks something like this:
>>
>> ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403",
>> ATTRS{idProduct}=="6001", SYMLINK+="lcd lcd-zalman-hd135"
>>
>> The problem is, sometimes (at reboot) it creates the symlinks to ttyUSB0
>> (as it's supposed to) -- but other times to usbdev[...]. When it links
>> to usbdev*, lirc and lcdproc don't work. If I run udevtrigger after the
>> system is up, the symlinks are created correctly every time.
>>
>> My question is, why does this happen? It's almost as if ttyUSB0 is not
>> created in time and the symlink gets assigned to the parent (as defined
>> by udevinfo). Unfortunately, udev doesn't seem to allow me to write a
>> rule that would match the final ttyUSB0 device...
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Konstantin
>>
>>     
> Dumb question - is the rule one line, or as it shows in the email, 2
> lines? Even though you have a comma on the end of the first line,
> you get strange things happening if you do not use \ to continue the
> line - it treats it as 2 separate rules.
>
> Mikkel
>   

The rule is 1 line in the file, /etc/udev/rules.d/60-custom.rules





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