On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 04:50, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 04:21:35PM -1000, Philip Tait wrote:
>> I'm using 2.6.31 - that's pretty recent, right?
>
> That's a kernel version, not a udev version :)
>
> And even then, no, it's almost a year old, pretty old for a kernel
> release.
>
>> Do you know why '%e' was eliminated?
>
> What does the changelog say?
The changelog in the openSUSE udev 146-3.3.1 package goes back to
2006-07-04 - I could see no mention of %e being removed. However,
thanks to Kay's suggestion, seems like it is a moot point.
>> I've been doing some more reading, and wondered if I need to do an
>> IMPORT{parent} somewhere, so that my rule sees the 'port-num' and
>> 'serial' attributes at the same time. Not sure how to find out what
>> value to use for 'parent', though...
>
> As Kay points out, what's wrong with /dev/serial/ ? That should provide
> you with a persistant link for serial devices like this.
/dev/serial/by-id/* is perfect for my needs - I had no idea it was
there! I just need to figure out the safest way to update a Debian
Lenny configuration to get that working.
Thanks,
--
Philip J. Tait
Software Engineer, FMOS
http://subarutelescope.org
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