[PD] hid, routing different devices

[moritz]

Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> moritz hat gesagt: // moritz wrote:
> 
>> i'm playing around with a lot of usb-devices (joysticks/gamepads)..
>>
>> my problem is i want to route all this devices, but choosing a device by 
>> its hex value or name don't work with my hid. (compiled on Oct 9 2006 on 
>> übüntü däppr, i also tried a hid from a recent autobuild..)
>>
>> Because i want to connect the devices ignoring the order of plugging in, 
>> the devices are every time on a different /dev/input/*..
>>
>> how can i route the different devices? the [info( -message outputs me a 
>> stressful symbol with spaces in the name.
> 
> Are you already using udev? It has this nice automatic labelling
> system, where you can access devices by id and by name. For example
> here it looks like this: 
> 
> $ ls -l  /dev/input/by-id/
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 14 19:16 usb-6666_0667-event-joystick -> ../event5
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar  4 11:53 usb-Logitech_USB-PS.2_Optical_Mouse-event-mouse -> ../event4
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar  4 11:53 usb-Logitech_USB-PS.2_Optical_Mouse-mouse -> ../mouse0
> 
> The device IDs will always stay the same. It is probably possible to use these for [hid].
> 
> Ciao

alo

do i understand it right, i can for example the x-joystick allocate 
forever on /dev/input/event5 with udev?

thanx

moritz