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Re: help: udev rule for usb stick



On Wednesday 19 October 2005 17:56, Matteo Semplice
<matteo.semplice@libero.it>
(<[🔎] 200510200156.16431.matteo.semplice@libero.it>) wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>  is anyone willing to suggest an udev rule to SYMLINK my usb stick to
> something like "/dev/usbpen"? I know that the web is full of suggestions
> on how to do it, but I can't get it to work for me!
> 
> When I plug it in, it gets recognized by the scsi emulation and assigned
> to /dev/sda, but I've been trying in vane to write an udev rule to catch
> this device and symlink it to something else.

A simple rule, which will fail if the pen ever gets a name other
than /dev/sda, is

  KERNEL=="sda" SYMLINK="usbpen"

What does

  udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/sda)

say?



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