Re: Run hotplug scripts after device node is created?

[Olivier Blin <oblin@mandriva.com>]

Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> writes:

> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:27:09 +0200 Marco d'Itri wrote:
>
>> On Aug 23, Olivier Blin <oblin@mandriva.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > What should we do then? Write an udev rule per device ids?
>> Yes, or match on some other appropriate value.
>> 
>> > This would end up in a huge number of rules, can udev manage that
>> > without performance cost?
>> I doubt that the number or rules would be high.
>
> $ grep -v '^#' /etc/hotplug/usb/libsane.usermap | wc -l
> 210
> $ grep -v '^#' /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam.usermap | wc -l 
> 372

Same on Mandriva (mostly gphoto devices):
$ grep -v '^#' /etc/hotplug/usb.*map | wc -l
936

> These are basically just a bunch of USB vendor/device IDs, and it is
> likely that most devices don't have any reliable attributes which would
> allow to match a group of them with a single rule.

Right, it means as many rules as devices.

-- 
Olivier Blin
Mandriva
Mandrakesoft becomes Mandriva



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