Re: udev and irda-usb trouble

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 07:05:47PM -0500, Chris Horn wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 December 2004 18:50, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 16:17 -0500, Chris Horn wrote:
> > > Generally I am quite happy with udev and USB in Linux.  One thing, 
> > > though,
> > > really bothers me.  I haven't been able to write a udev rule to pick up 
> > > my
> > > irda-usb based IrDA dongle.
> > > 
> > > I can talk to it just fine if I manually create an irda0 node in /dev 
> > > with
> > > mknod, but I don't want to keep doing that (udev keeps deleting my 
> > > node).
> > > Irattach connects just fine with 'irattach irda0 none -s'** without
> > > the /dev/irda0 node, but my application (jpilot) obviously needs a file 
> > > to
> > > talk through.
> > > 
> > > Problems:
> > > 1. I can't seem to get any info with udevinfo on any irda or ircomm 
> > > node.
> > > 2. Even if I create a /dev/irda0 node, unload all the modules and then 
> > > have
> > > usb.agent detect the device plugin event and start up all the modules, 
> > > udev
> > > will not make any nodes for me.  I even tried rebooting, even though I 
> > > know
> > > that shouldn't be necessary.
> > > 3. udev works fine for my other devices.
> > > 
> > > The latest rule I've been trying is:
> > > BUS="usb", KERNEL="irda[0-9]", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="%k"
> > 
> > Hey, don't use the same value for NAME _and_ SYMLINK. :)
> > 
> > Kay
> 
> Thanks for the tip - I should've realized that was silly.  I've tried it with 
> other text there (and just re-tried it), though, and it still doesn't work.
> 
> I just tried this:
> BUS="usb", KERNEL="irda[0-9]", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="IRdongle"

Is there really a /sys/class/usb/irda* device in sysfs for your device?
I didn't think the irda driver used the usb major number.  Where in
sysfs does the "dev" file for this device show up (it should be
somewhere in /sys/class/.  If not there, that's why this isn't working.

thanks,

greg k-h


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