From: Stephen Mathezer <mathezer@yahoo.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: symlink created to ts2 instead of mouse2
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:35:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <410FA2B3.40600@yahoo.com> (raw)
Stephen Mathezer wrote:
> I am trying to get a usb mouse working with udev/hotplug. Everything
> works fine as long as I don't try to influence the naming. I plug the
> mouse in and I end up with /dev/input/mouse2 which works no problem.
> If however I try to symlink to the mouse, the symlink gets created to
> /dev/input/ts2 instead of mouse2. If I create a rule using NAME for
> the device, then the device gets created with the ts2 maj/min node
> numbers instead of the mouse2 maj/min numbers.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas for how to fix this or figure out what is
> going on?
>
> See relevant info below
>
> thanks
>
> -Steve
>
> My udev rule is:
>
> BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with
> IntelliEye(TM)", SYMLINK="input/msmouse"
For the sake of the archives I'll answer my own question. I just had to
add KERNEL="mouse*" to my rule (duh)
BUS="usb", KERNEL="mouse*", SYSFS{product}="Microsoft 5-Button Mouse
with IntelliEye(TM)", SYMLINK="input/msmouse"
-Steve
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