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Re: udev and /usr



Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Sep 2009, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep  7, 2009 at 05:15:19 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>> From what I can see in /lib/udev/rules.d, the ids files are only used to setup
>>> the (udev) environment variable ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE
>>> (75-net-description.rules, 75-tty-description.rules, 78-sound-card.rules).
>>>
>>> There are no symlinks created in /dev based on that information.
> 
> Oh yes, there are.  Either Unstable's udev or something else does this for
> USB at the very least.  Noticed it when playing with a Huawei E220 HSDPA USB
> modem, the usb.ids information ended up in /dev/serial/by-id.

Could you investigate which udev rules file does that?
The files I mentioned above clearly don't and I haven't found any other rules
file on my laptop which either used pci-db/usd-db or ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE.

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