Re: [Evolution] Re: Syncing Evolution

[Nigel Metheringham <Nigel Metheringham dev intechnology co uk>]

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 17:25 -0500, Paul M. Bucalo wrote:
> Thanks! I would never have known that. It never occurred to me that you
> can have more than one set of 'rules'. I just thought all your rules go
> in one file. Does the numbering of the rules file mean an order in which
> it is being read?

Yes.  This is documented somewhere, but I can't find it now so it
obviously isn't documented well enough.

I guess its somewhere in
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html
  http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/udev/

which is hardly in the main system docs :-(


> > # cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules
> > KERNEL="ttyUSB1",SYMLINK="pilot"
>
> My entry in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
>
> KERNEL="ttyUSB[0-9]*",SYMLINK="pilot"
> BUS="usb", KERNEL="ttyUSB[0-9]*", NAME="usb/%k"

The first one of those is very close to what I use:-
  KERNEL="ttyUSB1", SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="pilot"

which works for a Palm Tungsten C - these devices (and all PalmOS 5 and
probably PalmOS 4 devices) appear as 2 separate ttyUSB interfaces -
normally ttyUSB0 & ttyUSB1, and you talk to the second device.

Your rule would hit problems since there will be multiple matches all
symlinking to the same name - not sure what happens here.

However my rule falls down if you have more than one palm device
(actually yours will die in that case too), and/or if you have similar-
ish devices - for example I have a Pocket PC device which also takes up
a number of ttyUSB ports.

I think these issues are partly why there aren't default rules - there
are too many ways of making it all go wrong.

I'm considering changing to Multisync if I can get that going reasonably
well - the current gpilot situation seems to be being left to rot.

        Nigel.
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