[Mageia-dev] Upgrade udev 175

Sun Dec 18 02:59:21 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 18/12/11 01:23 did gyre and gimble:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 17/12/11 23:10 did gyre and gimble:
+>> On 17 Dec 2011, at 23:00, "D.Morgan" <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>> /sbin/usb_id is needed by mouse.pm to generate
+>>> /dev/input/by-id/xxx seems we need to migrate using udevadm now.
+> 
+>> Hmm. Not at my computer but I thought it still existed but under a
+>> different path. Maybe not, but I'll check when I get back later.
+> 
+> Yup, it's still there in /lib/udev/usb_id.
+
+Erm, forget me, I forgot I'd reverted to test something :s It's gone.
+
+> Perhaps the udevadm way is better tho'. I'll try and review.
+
+Doing this would get the correct device path:
+
+udevadm info --query=symlink
+--path=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input9/mouse1
+| cut -d' ' -f1
+input/by-id/usb-Microsoft_Microsoft_Optical_Mouse_with_Tilt_Wheel-mouse
+
+Col
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