From: Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher@comcast.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Is anybody paying attention?
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:02:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cn09g1$9no$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
Come on people! This is causing a lot of pain for people who want USB
devices to "just work". If changing the "readlink -f" call to just
"readlink" isn't the right answer, then someone speak up. Otherwise,
fix it!
Ian Pilcher wrote:
> This seems pretty straightforward to me. Is there some reason that no
> one has responded?
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: BUG: REMOVER not called for USB unplug
> Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 12:04:38 -0500
> From: Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher@comcast.net>
> To: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>
> This is a follow-up to the "Run script when USB scanner unplugged"
> thread. I think I have figured out why the REMOVER script is never
> called when I unplug my USB scanner.
>
> I believe that the problem is the following part of
> /etc/hotplug/usb.agent:
>
> #
> # declare a REMOVER name that the add action can use to create a
> # remover, or that the remove action can use to execute a remover.
> #
> if [ "$DEVPATH" != "" ]; then
> # probably, 2.6.x
> REMOVER=/var/run/usb/$(readlink -f $SYSFS/$DEVPATH | sed -e 's;/;%;g')
> elif [ "$DEVICE" != "" ]; then
> # 2.4.x?
> REMOVER=/var/run/usb/$(echo $DEVICE | sed -e 's;/;%;g')
> else
> # should not happen?
> REMOVER=/var/run/usb/$(echo "$INTERFACE/$PRODUCT/$TYPE" | sed -e
> 's;/;%;g')
> fi
> export REMOVER
>
> Note that if DEVPATH is set, then the sysfs entry is used to determine
> the value of REMOVER. But this entry is already gone when the script is
> executed.
>
> Could the call to readlink -f be removed?
>
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next reply other threads:[~2004-11-11 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-11 18:02 Ian Pilcher [this message]
2004-11-11 19:20 ` Is anybody paying attention? the flying pig brigade
2004-11-11 21:00 ` Ian Pilcher
2004-11-12 2:06 ` Mike Frysinger
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