In Lucid, sysfs[] declarations need to be removed from 56-hpmud_support.rules

I see this warning every time I boot Lucid. It distracts me from spotting more important issues and is thus harmful to the testing process.

This bug was fixed in the package hplip - 3.9.12-2ubuntu2

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hplip (3.9.12-2ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/udev-rules-use-attrs-not-sysfs.dpatch: Don't use
    deprecated syntax (LP: #491346)
 -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:23:37 -0500

I doubt it's completely fixed. I'm running Lucid (upgraded from Karmic) with hplip 3.10.2-2ubuntu2 and almost all of the files in /etc/udev/rules.d use SYSFS, thus causing the distracting error messages at boot time.

An example from file 86-hpmud-hp_laserjet_1020.rules:

# hp_laserjet_1020
SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", SYSFS{idVendor}=="03f0", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2b17", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'X=%k; X=$${X#usbdev}; B=$${X%%%%.*}; D=$${X#*.}; logger -p user.info loading hp_laserjet_1020 firmware $$B $$D; printf %%03i:%%03i $$B $$D'", RUN+="/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/hp-firmware -y3 -s%c &'"

The files in /etc/udev/rules.d com from HP's proprietary plugin, not from the HPLIP package itself, so this is a pure upstream bug, the Ubuntu package is OK.

Can someone at HP fix the proprietary plugin? Thanks.

@HP:
As of the next udev release (174) the SYSFS key will no longer work. The replacement ATTRS key has worked since udev-098 released in August 2006. It would be nice if this fix could go upstream so we could stop patching in the different distros.

Hi Tom E. Gundersen,

Thank you for providing detailed information. We will incorporate these changes in HPLIP from next release on wards.

Thanks & Regards,
Amarnath