From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:26:45 +0000 Subject: Re: udev and irda-usb trouble Message-Id: <20041222002644.GA12825@kroah.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel