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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2009-01-03 16:25:15 +0100
committerKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2009-01-03 16:25:15 +0100
commit8553cf06b93739c859534a85cc7ef1bdd8e33a5c (patch)
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parentcc02d72c82d4ebc2c0803bae0c94707e9d1eea83 (diff)
rules: Ubuntu merge - use group "tape"
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@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ nodes should be reliably created, but some rules and libudev will
not work correctly because the old kernels do not provide the expected
information or interfaces.
+We are currently merging the Ubuntu rules in the udev default rules, and
+get one step closer to provide a common Linux /dev setup regarding device
+names, symlinks, and default device permissions. On udev startup, we now
+expect the following groups to be resolvable to their ids by glibc's
+getgrnam(): "disk cdrom floppy tape audio video lp tty kmem".
+
/dev/serial/by-{id,path}/ now contains links for ttyUSB devices,
which do not depend on the kernel device name. As usual, unique
devices - only a single one per product connected, or a real