comedi, udev & usb

Hi list,

I use an USB-DUX device with a 2.6.16 kernel on debian testing. The
device works well, with the drawback that the firmware has to be load
manually via the call 

comedi_config -i /usr/local/share/usb/usbdux_firmware.hex /dev/comedi0
usbdux 

I was not able to find an udev-rule for the usb-dux device, so
hotplugging does not work. Asking on the udev-mailing list, Greg
(udev-developer) suggested that the comedi layer does not support sysfs
and the driver model properly (see
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-hotplug-devel&m=115619792207285&w=4), so defining an appropriate udev-rule is impossible. 

Are there any plans to incorporate udev and comedi, so hotplugging
usb-devices will automatically work? Or is the workaround to use an
older kernel (e.g. 2.8.6) with support for hotplug-scripts? Or should I
discard udev and fall back to hotplug scripts? Or is the real problem
anything else? 

Thanks, Sven

Received on 2007-01-22Z14:40:45