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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: usblp attributes split in udevinfo
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:18:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1171437529.3830.7.camel@pim.off.vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070213230520.64fe8c2b.aahrend@web.de>

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 00:53 +0100, Arne Ahrend wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:10:25 +0100
> "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> 
> > The next group has
> > > DRIVERS="usblp", but a device which is not suitable for printing. Using its ATTRS{modalias} for my udev printer rules
> > > I get symlinks to device nodes like
> > >         crw-rw---- 1 root root 254, 14 2007-02-13 18:53 /dev/usbdev2.3_ep82
> > > and not to /dev/usb/lp0.
> > >
> > > Can anyone shed some light on this?
> > 
> > What are you trying to do?
> 
> 
> Thanks for replying. I am trying to create a persistent symlink (e.g. HL-1050) to the lp0 device.
> 
> The modalias or ieee1284_id attributes are in one group, but KERNEL="lp0" is in another.

Udev can match on _all_ parent devices, the attributes don't need to be
at the device itself. ATTRS walk up all parent devices to match, ATTR
looks only at the device itself.

> So what is the best way to have a symlink /dev/HL-1050 -> /dev/usb/lp0 created automatically?
> 
> It used to be as easy as
> 
> 	SUBSYSTEM="usb", sysfs{modalias}="usb:v04F9p0002d0100dc00dsc00dp00ic07isc01ip02", SYMLINK="HL-1050"
> 
> but that now gives a link to device nodes like /dev/usbdev2.3_ep82 instead of /dev/usb/lp0.

You are matching the "usb_device" event.

Try:
  KERNEL="lp*", ATTRS{ieee1284_id}="*HL-1050*", SYMLINK+="HL-1050"


Kay


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-14  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-13 22:05 usblp attributes split in udevinfo Arne Ahrend
2007-02-13 22:10 ` Kay Sievers
2007-02-13 23:53 ` Arne Ahrend
2007-02-14  0:02 ` Matthias Schwarzott
2007-02-14  7:18 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2007-02-14 17:40 ` Arne Ahrend

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