[PLUG] Actions after a USB device is plugged in

Tim tim-pdxlug at sentinelchicken.org
Wed Oct 15 16:15:22 UTC 2008


> There is nothing preventing you from creating a symlink when the target
> does not exist.  It will be a broken link until the target becomes
> available.  Why not just write an init.d script that creates the link?

Well, because the specific device being set up is not guaranteed to be
mapped to /dev/ttyUSB0.  Maybe that's the only tty USB device that
system will ever see, but udev is desiged to create these mappings more
correctly, from what I understand.

tim



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