> > Well for starters, the notion that those two characteristics are enough
> > to address the problem.  Consider that I might have two USB disk drives
> > (or cameras) of the same make/model, and they might get connected in any
> > order.  
> 
> If the two devices have same VendorId:ProductID it should not matter.
> They will get their sequence numbers in the order they were plugged-in.

But as I said, that's not enough.  It makes a huge difference which
device is which.


> My opinion is that it would be very usefull to have some kind
> of file in which sysadmin can:
> 
> 1. set general access rights to devices
> 2. set them per user and per VendorID:ProductId - so when
> device is plugged in - it gets the right rights in /proc/bus/usb/

So go write such a script.  Seems to me the infrastructure
exists today, you can make it and see how well it works.


> I like things simple.

"As simple as possible, but no simpler" ... as the saying goes.

People have talked about such config files before.  I think that
the "tar up /devfs and restore it" solution fails for hotplugging
(and usbdevfs), since it depends on identifier stability that does
not exist.

- Dave




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