From: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri)
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libgphoto2 calls hotplug script with wrong variables
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:06:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051206000602.GA18948@wonderland.linux.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4394CDE7.1070008@bl.com>
On Dec 06, Moshe Yudkowsky <msha5_17@bl.com> wrote:
> My udev directory has a file called "libgphoto2.rules" -- I didn't put
> it there, but I don't know which package did (from the changelog, I
> suspect it was libgphoto2 package using a utility called
> "print-udev-rules").
Right. So this is off topic for this mailing list.
> (1a) I keep on reading on this list that /etc/hotplug is supposed to be
> deprecated, and yet here's /etc/hotplug that looks pretty official.
Blame the people who do not want to stop supporting old-style hotplug
and 2.4 kernels in Debian. Anyway, this is not important.
> (1b) I also keep reading about HAL, but it isn't installed on my machine
> accoring to dpkg. Should it be? If it is supposed to be, why isn't in
> installed -- which script should have installed it?
Because libgphoto does not actually use it.
> (2) The script libgphoto2 doesn't work. The goal of libgphoto2 is to set
> the device created by hotplug (later udev) so that anyone in group
> $CAMERA can use it, but that doesn't happen, and here's why.
The script works fine, but updates the /prob/bus/usb/ file.
You also need an udev rule to set GROUP for the SUBSYSTEM="usb_device"
event which creates the /dev/bus/usb/ device.
--
ciao,
Marco
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-05 23:31 libgphoto2 calls hotplug script with wrong variables Moshe Yudkowsky
2005-12-06 0:06 ` Marco d'Itri [this message]
2005-12-06 4:30 ` Moshe Yudkowsky
2005-12-06 8:18 ` Marco d'Itri
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