Saner rules for udev

My favorite Linux brain teaser, udev, has changed its rule language somewhat.

Previously, I had the following rule:


BUS="usb",
SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld",
KERNEL="ttyUSB[13579]",
OWNER="lemire",
GROUP="tty",
MODE="0660",
SYMLINK="m500"

Now, you need to have


BUS=="usb",
SYSFS{product}=="Palm Handheld",
KERNEL=="ttyUSB[13579]",
OWNER="lemire",
GROUP="tty",
MODE="0660",
SYMLINK="m500"

This makes perfect sense, except that there was no error message to explain the required change. So an hour later, I learned way more than I needed about a crazy piece of software.

In general, another lesson learned is that rule languages are hard and generally unfriendly. Yes, I would throw CSS into the fold.

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2 thoughts on “Saner rules for udev”

  1. Weird change = -> ==, and it does not seem consistent… !?! (Unless it is a difference between assumed to be constant versus variable?)

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