There is a Debian bug written about this too: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501503 The solution suggested there works on Gentoo as well: just add this line to /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-input.rules: SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{bInterfaceClass}=="03", ATTRS{bInterfaceProtocol}=="00", ENV{ID_CLASS}="misc" Then I get this link created: /dev/input/by-id/usb-Griffin_Technology__Inc._Griffin_PowerMate-event-misc Not sure if that's the best way, and I'm sure it needs to be pushed upstream etc. but this solution works for me. Next there are problems with evdev but that's a different bug. :-) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.30.1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30.1-i686-AMD_Turion-tm-_64_X2_Mobile_Technology_TL-58-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r9, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en_US en ru" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac accessibility acl acpi addbookmarks aiglx alias alsa apache2 applet arts automount autoreplace avahi bcp beagle berkdb binfilter bjam bluetooth bzip2 cairo calendar cddb cdr cdrom cg clearcase clearpasswd cli colordiff connectionstatus contactnotes cpufreq cracklib crypt cups dbus dga dia dillo djvu dnotify dri escreen exif exiv2 expat fat fbcon fbdev finger firebird firefox flac fortran ftp fuse gdbm ggi gif gimp gimpprint glib glitz gmail gnutls gpm graphviz gs gtalk gtk guile gzip hal haskell hddtemp highlight hyperestraier ical iconv icu idn imagemagick imlib inkjar inotify ipod ipv6 irda irmc isdnlog jabber java jpeg jpeg2k jrtplib json kcal kde kdepim laptop lcms lm_sensors logitech-mouse logwatch lua madwifi maildir mbox mbrola mcal mdnsresponder-compat midi mmx mmxext mng mono mozilla mp3 mp4 mplayer mudflap nas ncurses net netmeeting network networking nfs nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nspr ntfs obex office ogg old-daemons opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf pdfkit perl plotutils png pnm postscript ppds pyste python qt-dbus qt-phonon qt-webkit qt3 qt3support qt4 rar rdesktop readline reiser4 reiserfs rrdtool rss rtc rtsp samba sametime scintilla screen sdl sdl-image sdl-sound sdlaudio sensord server session slang slp smp spl sql sqlite sqlite3 sse ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs syslog t1lib tcpd theora threads tidy tiff truetype type1 unicode usb utempter valgrind vim-with-x vnc vncviewer vorbis webdav webpresence winpopup wmf x86 xcomposite xforms xine xinerama xml xorg xrandr xscreensaver yahoo zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse vmmouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US en ru" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev vesa vmware radeon fglrx radeonhd" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I'm using sys-fs/udev-141 at the moment, BTW
Thanks for reporting this issue, and for reporting a fix as well :) Assigning to maintainers.
udev-142 contains rules to add links to usb/platform non-kbd/mouse devices. This are the added rules. # allow empty class for USB devices, and append the interface number SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ENV{ID_BUS}=="?*", ENV{ID_CLASS}=="", ATTRS{bInterfaceNumber}=="?*", \ SYMLINK+="input/by-id/$env{ID_BUS}-$env{ID_SERIAL}-event-if$attr{bInterfaceNumber}" and # allow empty class for platform and usb devices; platform supports only a single interface that way SUBSYSTEMS=="usb|platform", ENV{ID_PATH}=="?*", KERNEL=="event*", ENV{ID_CLASS}=="", \ SYMLINK+="input/by-path/$env{ID_PATH}-event"
Does it work if you add the rules from comment #3 to 60-persistent-input.rules ?
There is no ebuild for 142, but it seems to work fine with 145. (just the by-id link has a slightly different name)
(In reply to comment #5) > There is no ebuild for 142, but it seems to work fine with 145. (just the > by-id link has a slightly different name) > Marking fixed then.
