udev rules for wedo

[Jerry Vonau]

On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 13:21 -0500, Rafael Ortiz wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
>         jerry wrote:
>          > Hi all:
>          >
>          > Playing around with wedo, I've found that scratch is
>         providing udev
>          > rules for wedo and there are rules installed by olpc-utils.
>         I'm
>          > wondering if the rules provided by scratch should be used
>         in place of or
>          > in conjunction with the olpc provided rules
>         in /etc/udev/rules.d. Here
>          > are the contents of the 2 files for F11.
>          >
>          > 30-olpc-wedo.rules:
>          >  # Lego WeDo
>          > SYSFS{idVendor}=="0694", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0003",
>         GROUP="dialout",
>          > MODE="0660"
>          >
>          > 45-lego-wedo.rules:
>          > # Lego WeDo
>          > SYSFS{idVendor}=="0694", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0003",
>         MODE="0666"
>          >
>          > Looks to me that what is provided by scratch should be part
>         of
>          > olpc-utils.
>         
>         
>         i believe scratch supplies rules because (at least at the
>         time) it
>         could be installed on XO distributions that didn't include
>         udev
>         rules at all.
>         
> This is my impresion too, last versions of scratch included these
> rules. 
> 
Ok, then I'll assume those are included to allow scratch to work on
something other than an olpc build.

>  
>         and since the 'olpc' user is a member of group 'dialout', i
>         think these
>         rules are equivalent in practice.  (except for use by 'other',
>         and i'm not sure how that would happen on an XO.)   both rules
>         give the olpc user read/write access to the device.
>         
>         are you seeing a conflict or other problem?
>         
I don't have a wedo kit yet to test with, I'm just trying to preempt any
issues.

Jerry