[systemd-devel] Bug#758050: udev: ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE, ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE for unrecognised USB device are taken from USB hub

[Kay Sievers]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Simon McVittie
<simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> I recently opened this Debian bug, for which I attach a
> patch that seems to work. Bug report quoted in full below.
>
> I would appreciate udev maintainers' opinions on whether this is
> likely to break non-USB devices, or whether there is a better way
> to do it.

Maybe replace streq(dsubsys, "usb") with a specific match on " devtype
== usb_device" (sysfs hierarchy is usb_interface -> usb_device) and if
we hit that, we make sure we stop looking at any of the parents?

Thanks,
Kay