On Tue, February 10, 2009 7:29 am, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 16:19, Yan Seiner <yan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I have a device that presents itself as both a /dev/input/mouise and
>> /dev/input/event.
>>
>> The mouse:
>>
>> looking at device '/class/input/input10/mouse6':
>> KERNEL=="mouse6"
>> SUBSYSTEM=="input"
>> DRIVER==""
>
>> The event:
>>
>> looking at device '/class/input/input10/event10':
>> KERNEL=="event10"
>> SUBSYSTEM=="input"
>> DRIVER==""
>
>> The *only* difference between the two is the KERNEL== line. I need to
>> create a symlink to both the mouse and the event. I tried this:
>
> Use the links in: /dev/input/by-id/?
>
> They look like this for a USB mouse here:
> $ tree /dev/input/by-id/
> /dev/input/by-id/
> |-- usb-Logitech_USB-PS_2_Optical_Mouse-event-mouse -> ../event8
> `-- usb-Logitech_USB-PS_2_Optical_Mouse-mouse -> ../mouse1
>
> Kay
Hah! Won't quite work as I have 2 of these, but I can match on the
ID_PATH env var!
Thanks!
--Yan
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