linux-kernel - Re: Stable identification of identical USB hardware

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:13:41 -0400
From:	"Lee Revell" <rlrevell@...-job.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stable identification of identical USB hardware

On 6/18/07, Michael Mauch <michael.mauch@....de> wrote:
> > If I have to cardbus sockets, how do I get from what I know ("the card
> > is in socket 0") to "I have to talk to ttyUSB2 to talk to the card"? I
> > suspect I have to follow the thread from /sys/bus/pci to
> > /sys/bus/usb/devices, but how exactly?
>
> You should be able to distinguish the devices with udev. Have a look at
> http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
>

Isn't this something that the distro should do for you?  It's insane
to expect users to write udev rules for such basic functionality...

Lee
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