From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Writing General Rules for USB devices.
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:45:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070116174524.GA1498@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C5065F118AFB3D478B052FC1E9810D9C235F56@tec-mail.ttec.soc-soft.com>
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 02:06:14PM +0530, Krishna Prasad G. wrote:
>
> Hi Hotplug Development,
>
> This is regarding writing general rules for any USB devices.
>
> I am G.Krishna Prasad. I am working on Linux 2.6.15 kernel.
>
> I need to identify USB devices connection and removal automatically.
>
> I have written following udev rules in 10-local.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d:
>
> ACTION="add", SUBSYSTEM="usb_device", RUN+="/sbin/myusbmonitor 0"
> ACTION="remove", SUBSYSTEM="usb_device", RUN+="/sbin/myusbmonitor 1"
>
> and the script "myusbmonitor" is as follows:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #Description: A prototype script to demonstrate insertion/removal any usb device using udev frame work of linux
> #
> #Note: Use this script when you have following lines to /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
> #
> # ##Added by Manjunathan Padua
> # ACTION="add", SUBSYSTEM="usb_device", RUN+="/sbin/myusbmonitor 0"
> # ACTION="remove", SUBSYSTEM="usb_device", RUN+="/sbin/myusbmonitor 1"
> #
> #
>
> if [ $1 -eq "0" ]; then
> echo "usb was inserted into the PC " >> /tmp/usb ; #log the usb found event
> else
> echo "usb was removed from the PC" >> /tmp/usb ; #log the usb removal event
> fi
>
>
> Issues/Concerns:
> -----------------
>
> Only "Add" event is recognized by my script.
>
> No "Remove" events are captured.
>
> Please help me in this regard.
Have you run 'udevmonitor' and watched the events happen? Perhaps you
are just missing the remove event somehow.
Also, please try a newer kernel version, 2.6.15 is quite old now,
especially in the usb_device area.
good luck,
greg k-h
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CIDÞVDEV
_______________________________________________
Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net
Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-16 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-16 8:48 Writing General Rules for USB devices Krishna Prasad G.
2007-01-16 17:45 ` Greg KH [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20070116174524.GA1498@kroah.com \
--to=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.