Is anybody paying attention?

[Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher@comcast.net>]

Come on people!  This is causing a lot of pain for people who want USB
devices to "just work".  If changing the "readlink -f" call to just
"readlink" isn't the right answer, then someone speak up.  Otherwise,
fix it!

Ian Pilcher wrote:
> This seems pretty straightforward to me.  Is there some reason that no
> one has responded?
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: BUG: REMOVER not called for USB unplug
> Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 12:04:38 -0500
> From: Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher@comcast.net>
> To: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> This is a follow-up to the "Run script when USB scanner unplugged"
> thread.  I think I have figured out why the REMOVER script is never
> called when I unplug my USB scanner.
> 
> I believe that the problem is the following part of
> /etc/hotplug/usb.agent:
> 
> #
> # declare a REMOVER name that the add action can use to create a
> # remover, or that the remove action can use to execute a remover.
> #
> if [ "$DEVPATH" != "" ]; then
>   # probably, 2.6.x
>   REMOVER=/var/run/usb/$(readlink -f $SYSFS/$DEVPATH | sed -e 's;/;%;g')
> elif [ "$DEVICE" != "" ]; then
>   # 2.4.x?
>   REMOVER=/var/run/usb/$(echo $DEVICE | sed -e 's;/;%;g')
> else
>   # should not happen?
>   REMOVER=/var/run/usb/$(echo "$INTERFACE/$PRODUCT/$TYPE" | sed -e
> 's;/;%;g')
> fi
> export REMOVER
> 
> Note that if DEVPATH is set, then the sysfs entry is used to determine
> the value of REMOVER.  But this entry is already gone when the script is
> executed.
> 
> Could the call to readlink -f be removed?
> 


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Ian Pilcher                                        i.pilcher@comcast.net
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