Re: Now I've done it

On 16 May 2025 20:59:04 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

Le 16-05-2025, Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> a écrit :

On Fri, 16 May 2025 01:34:50 +0000, rbowman wrote:
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I certainly didn't need an excursion into udev rules earlier this
week.
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Udev is another piece of unnecessary junk that was foisted on all
distros. For a standalone workstation, static device nodes are the best
solution but the universal opinion is that static nodes are obsolete
and have no place in a modern GNU/Linux.

 
You are confused. A standalone workstation isn't the same thing as an
unused workstation. Anyone has a lot of reason to plug things on a
started workstation. And being able to do the difference between a well
known usb key and a garbage plugged into a computer is very important.

All I really wanted to do is have picotool flash a pico without using
sudo. The Raspberry Pi Pico extension in VS code has a 'Run' button to
flash a device in the BOOTSEL mode and start execution. For some reason it
worked on Ubuntu but failed on Fedora, requiring an invocation with sudo.

The strange thing is I couldn't figure out why the difference other than
it is a snap on Ubuntu and not a flatpak on Fedora. The snap may be
working some magic that doesn't require a rule. I see a lot of rules like
70-snap.gnome-mahjongg.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d but nothing for
picotool. It's not in /lib/udev/rules.d either.

I stopped digging when I got it to work on Fedora.