[BRLTTY] udev rules

[Mario Lang]

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> writes:

> Mario Lang, le ven. 13 mai 2022 07:12:54 +0200, a ecrit:
>> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> writes:
>> 
>> > As reported on Ubuntu which happens to install brltty by default in its
>> > latest release, the udev rules for braille devices with generic USB IDs
>> > are hurting people that have hardware that use the same usb-serial chip.
>> 
>> This is a long solved problem.  ``Tools/updusbdevs -nogeneric``.
>
> We'd also need a -genericonly option :)
>
> (I guess that if we install both the nogeneric udev rules file and the
> full udev file, rules for the non-generic devices will get executed
> twice, which we don't want)

All I was trying to say is that if you run

Tools/updusbdevs -nogeneric

at build time, the udev rules will be rewritten such that no generic
devices are included.  This is likely what distributors want.

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