Re: udev: Inconsistency between %b and %p?

[Andreas Schwab]

Manuel Reimer <Manuel.Spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> As I would prefer to use the USB device information (idVendor, idProduct)
> to detect the device, I also tried this one:
>
> ATTRS{idVendor}=="0dda", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2005", SUBSYSTEM=="scsi",
> ACTION=="add", PROGRAM+="/usr/bin/test.sh %b %p"
>
> Now this version returns the USB device ID ($NUM-$NUM) to the test script,
> but the device path (%p) is still OK and still goes down up to the SCSI
> device ID.
>
> Why does %b not return the SCSI device ID in the second rule?

Because ATTRS has matched the USB device, not the SCSI device.

Andreas.

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