[BRLTTY] udev rules

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Wed May 18 04:45:32 EDT 2022


Hello,

Dave Mielke, le mar. 17 mai 2022 15:53:56 -0400, a ecrit:
> [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2022/05/16 at 18:29 +0200]
> 
> >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.
> 
> Just in time for 6.5 - this'll be the last change.

Thanks!

> We have a device which maybe should be considered generic. Currently we don't define it as such. lsusb describes it as:
> 
>    ID 16c0:05e1 Van Ooijen Technische Informatica Free shared USB VID/PID pair for CDC devices
> 
> As I understand it, this means that it isn't generic in that it hasn't been assigned by a vendor to be a default configuration. Rather, it's just a vendor/product ID pair that's free for anyone to use.
> 
> What do you think?

It seems to me that it'll have to fall to the generic section indeed.

Samuel


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