Problem with udev and apcupsd

[Colin <cwvca_blah@hotmail.com>]

I was setting up udev with my 2.6.5 kernel and I managed to get almost 
everything working correctly.  The only problem that I had a bit of trouble 
with is my APC Back-UPS LS 500.  Every time I rebooted Debian I got this 
error message in my /var/log/apcupsd.events file:

Mon Apr 12 21:53:10 EDT 2004  apcupsd FATAL ERROR in linux-usb.c at line 686
Cannot open UPS device:
Mon Apr 12 21:53:10 EDT 2004  apcupsd error shutdown completed

I managed to fix the problem by adding the following line to my 
/etc/udev/links.conf file:

M hiddev0       c 180 96

This seems a little bit hackish to me and I was wondering if there is a 
better way to solve this problem.  I do have the "hid" entry in my 
/etc/modules file but this doesn't seem to fix the problem.