[Mageia-dev] Upgrade udev 175

[Colin Guthrie]

'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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