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mihi

Member

Registered: 2009-01-27

Posts: 10

UDev rules as packages?

Hi everyone!

I've a Shuttle-Barebone with a LCD display for Freevo. Freevo includes a plugin to access this LCD display and shows some status information, unfortunately the permissions on the device are to restrictive.

To remedy the problem I've written (or better adapted) an udev rule to give users the permissions to write to the device:

/etc/udev/rules.d/82-vfd.rules:

SYSFS{idVendor}=="051c", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0005", MODE="0666", GROUP="users"

Is this a good way to give permissions, and would it be a good idea to provide a package in AUR with this, and similar, rules?

Thanks!

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: UDev rules as packages?

IMO a package is overkill for udev rules, unless you find yourself with dozens of them. Even then, they are likely to be specific to your requirements, and may not be of interest to many other users.

Just my €0.02 though - go ahead with the package if you wish.