udev problems

[Harald Hoyer]

Dwaine Garden wrote:
> David Zeuthen wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>
> ubs.ids...  ???  It's a good start..
> 
> Dwaine.
> 


What about fixing the apps that want to open /dev/pilot???