BUG: REMOVER not called for USB unplug

This is a follow-up to the "Run script when USB scanner unplugged" thread. I think I have figured out why the REMOVER script is never called when I unplug my USB scanner.

I believe that the problem is the following part of /etc/hotplug/usb.agent:

#

# declare a REMOVER name that the add action can use to create a
# remover, or that the remove action can use to execute a remover.
#
if [ "$DEVPATH" != "" ]; then
   # probably, 2.6.x
   REMOVER=/var/run/usb/$(readlink -f $SYSFS/$DEVPATH | sed -e 's;/;%;g')
elif [ "$DEVICE" != "" ]; then
   # 2.4.x?
   REMOVER=/var/run/usb/$(echo $DEVICE | sed -e 's;/;%;g')
else
   # should not happen?
   REMOVER=/var/run/usb/$(echo "$INTERFACE/$PRODUCT/$TYPE" | sed -e 
's;/;%;g')
fi
export REMOVER

Note that if DEVPATH is set, then the sysfs entry is used to determine the value of REMOVER. But this entry is already gone when the script is executed.

Could the call to readlink -f be removed?

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Ian Pilcher                                        [email protected]
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