[colug-432] USB hub you'd trust attached to your server?

[Andy Graybeal]

Jeff and Jep,
Between what both of you said (the same thing), it sounds a little scary.

Would updating the kernel possibly add problems... I guess no one can know for sure.. so always test kernel updates on a non-critical machine.
Andy



On Thursday, 07-05-2012 on 11:41 am Jeff Frontz wrote:
> Yes, exactly.
> 
> Beware that (depending on your kernel/udev version), the various
> manuals and articles often make incorrect claims about what gets
> pumped out from the kernel to udev (and/or what udev seems to be able
> to comprehend).  I think some of them were written by USB/kernel
> architects as being fact when they were actually a wish list; then
> when the actual developers got to work, the imagined wasn't quite
> possible.  But then, that's normal for product development ;-)
> 
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Andy Graybeal
> <andy.graybeal at casanueva.com> wrote:
> > something like this (?): http://linux.togaware.com/survivor/Using_UDEV.html
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > On Thursday, 07-05-2012 on 11:13 am Jeff Frontz wrote:
> >> We solve that by using udev to key on bus/port information (and then
> >> link each raw device to a corresponding well-defined /dev entry).
> >>
> >> Jeff
> >
> >
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