Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > IMO, whomever came up with the idea of leaking pci.ids and usb.ids data to > /dev, made a bad mistake. Just because you'd show something in an UI, > doesn't mean it can be used to permanently identify a device safely. I have > no idea what HAL, and HAL-consumers did with that information (maybe it was > for display purposes only, for example?), but I do know that stuff that ends > up in /dev/by-id IS very likely to be used as a permanent way to identify > devices in places like /etc/fstab, etc.
From what I can see in /lib/udev/rules.d, the ids files are only used to setup the (udev) environment variable ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE (75-net-description.rules, 75-tty-description.rules, 78-sound-card.rules). There are no symlinks created in /dev based on that information. Given the name of the rules file, it indeed looks to be intended to be used for display/descriptive purposes. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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