From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev and irda-usb trouble
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:50:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103673017.5845.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AC07842E-5395-11D9-8CA9-000D932A03A8@beefstew.net>
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 16:17 -0500, Chris Horn wrote:
> Generally I am quite happy with udev and USB in Linux. One thing,
> though,
> really bothers me. I haven't been able to write a udev rule to pick up
> my
> irda-usb based IrDA dongle.
>
> I can talk to it just fine if I manually create an irda0 node in /dev
> with
> mknod, but I don't want to keep doing that (udev keeps deleting my
> node).
> Irattach connects just fine with 'irattach irda0 none -s'** without
> the /dev/irda0 node, but my application (jpilot) obviously needs a file
> to
> talk through.
>
> Problems:
> 1. I can't seem to get any info with udevinfo on any irda or ircomm
> node.
> 2. Even if I create a /dev/irda0 node, unload all the modules and then
> have
> usb.agent detect the device plugin event and start up all the modules,
> udev
> will not make any nodes for me. I even tried rebooting, even though I
> know
> that shouldn't be necessary.
> 3. udev works fine for my other devices.
>
> The latest rule I've been trying is:
> BUS="usb", KERNEL="irda[0-9]", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="%k"
Hey, don't use the same value for NAME _and_ SYMLINK. :)
Kay
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-21 23:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-21 21:17 udev and irda-usb trouble Chris Horn
2004-12-21 23:50 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2004-12-22 0:05 ` Chris Horn
2004-12-22 0:26 ` Greg KH
2004-12-22 0:43 ` Chris Horn
2004-12-22 0:52 ` Greg KH
2004-12-22 0:54 ` Chris Horn
2004-12-22 1:01 ` Greg KH
2004-12-22 1:12 ` Chris Horn
2004-12-22 1:23 ` Greg KH
2004-12-22 1:23 ` Kay Sievers
2004-12-22 1:35 ` Chris Horn
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