[BRLTTY] brltty bug

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by David on 2011/11/09 at 09:50 +0100]

>The main problem is that "brltty" claims all the USB devices with this ID:
>10c4:ea60. This ID is widely used for usb-serial communications with many
>devices such as GPS, developments boards, and other electronic
>instrumentation devices. Since "brltty" claims the device is impossible to
>find out why it's not working. It has been difficult to find out that this
>problem was caused by "brltty" and now it's fixed in Ubuntu by comment out
>the udev rule line for device "10c4:ea60".

Strictly speaking, yes, brltty is causing the problem. An easy solution, 
though, would be for Ubuntu to give brltty's udev file an earlier position in 
the udev rules file processing order so that the generic rule will take 
precedence. Then there'd only be a conflict if a brltty user also has one of 
those other devices. That could happen, of course, but it'd be far less common 
than all users being impacted by the current problem.

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