udev problems

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Sep 27 16:20:59 UTC 2004


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?

Bill





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