On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 19:24, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Distributions doing desktop spins or other single-user systems > may be interested in enabling access to the external ports (serial, > USB-to-serial dongle etc) and modems for the logged-in user. Almost all distributions with desktop focus run a system-wide service like ModemManager on connman, which hook into udev and probes and classifies modems, and tags them in a more reliable way. The users usually talk to these services not to the devices directly. > ENV{ID_EXTERNAL_PORT}=="*?", TAG+="udev-acl" We really don't want to get into the external/internal business ever, that can not be reliable determined. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html