[BRLTTY] udev rules

[Samuel Thibault]

Mario Lang, le lun. 16 mai 2022 18:26:25 +0200, a ecrit:
> 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.

Yes but we'd also want a -genericonly option too, so distributors also
have a file they can install for the people who do want udev rules for
the devices using generic IDs.

Samuel