Changeset 531886d

Timestamp:

05/08/2006 02:46:36 AM (18 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

93b8f83d

Parents:

85eca89b

Message:

Fine tuning libusb udev rules.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@6022 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• general/genlib/libusb.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general/genlib/libusb.xml

@@ -153 +153 @@
     </indexterm>
     
-    <para>To have USB devices set up properly, add the followng 
+    <para>To have raw USB devices set up properly, add the following 
     <application>udev</application> rule and add any users 
-    that need USB devices to the "usb" group.</para>
+    that need to access raw USB devices to the "usb" group.</para>
     
 <screen><literal>cat &gt; /etc/udev/rules.d/23-usb-rules &lt;&lt; "EOF"
-# Set group ownership for USB devices 
-SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", \
-PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'X=%k X=$${X#usbdev} B=$${X%%%%.*} D=$${X#*.}; \
-echo bus/usb/$$B/$$D'", SYMLINK+="%c", GROUP="usb"
+# Set group ownership for raw USB devices 
+SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", GROUP="usb" 
 EOF</literal></screen>
 
-    <para>Fine-tunuing of permissions is also possible by creating extra rules,
+    <para>Fine-tuning of permissions is also possible by creating extra rules,
     matching on something like this (on one line).  The vendor and product can
     be found by searchng the <filename
-    class='directory'>/sys/devices</filename> directory entries after
-    the device has been attached.</para>
+    class='directory'>/sys/devices</filename> directory entries or using
+    <command>udevinfo</command> after the device has been attached.  See the
+    documentation in the current udev directory of <filename
+    class='directory'>/usr/share/doc></filename> for details.</para>
 
 <screen><literal>SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", SYSFS{idVendor}=="05d8", 
 SYSFS{idProduct}=="4002", GROUP:="scanner"</literal></screen>
 
-
-
-    <para>Some older applications need the following deprecated entry in
-    the <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file.  Do not use it unless you 
-    know its needed.</para>
+    <para>Some older applications, such as <application>VMware</application>,
+    need the following deprecated entry in the <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>
+    file.  Do not use it unless you know its needed.</para>
 
 <screen><literal>usbfs  /proc/bus/usb  usbfs  devgid=14,devmode=0660  0  0</literal></screen>