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Roman Dmitrienko
Asked: 2012-11-07 00:38:42 +0800 CST

udev only reports events for a USB device configuration, not for the USB device itself

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I'm trying to execute a certain Python script on USB devices insertion. I need to handle all kinds of USB devices. I'm using a rule like this:

SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", RUN+="/.../test.py $devpath"

When I insert a USB flash drive, the test.py script is not executed. If I use a rule like this:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", RUN+="/.../test.py $devpath"

I catch events for the /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0, which is the default configuration of the device; but I don't get any events for /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-1/1-1.2. I do see such events with udevadm monitor, though. Why does it happen? Am I missing something?

My distro is current Arch Linux.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I have found the source of the problem. It turned out to be caused by a VirtualBox rule that overrode my own rule.

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