From: Mike Snitzer <msnitzer@lnxi.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can we have symlinks to usb/lp0 ?
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:59:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040321215901.B11891@lnxi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403220541.01049.jjluza@yahoo.fr>
On Sun, Mar 21 2004 at 21:41,
jjluza <jjluza@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
> I just plug my usb printer and udev (or hotplug) creates the
> device /dev/printers/0. That's ok for me, but since it's an usb printers,
> cups try to access it to /dev/usb/lp0. I know that I can change this
> behaviour, but maybe it could be a good thing to make symlinks
> from /dev/printers/0 to /dev/usb/lp0 when the printer is an usb one.
> Thanks.
Add the following to /etc/udev/udev.rules:
BUS="usb", KERNEL="lp[0-9]*", NAME="printers/%n", SYMLINK="usb/lp%n"
Is that all you're looking for or are you suggesting this get added to the
udev.rules that is included in the upstream and distro-maintained (debian,
fedora, etc) package?
Mike
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2004-03-22 4:41 Can we have symlinks to usb/lp0 ? jjluza
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