diff -ru udev-104-orig/extras/rule_generator/rule_generator.functions udev-104/extras/rule_generator/rule_generator.functions
--- udev-104-orig/extras/rule_generator/rule_generator.functions	2007-01-15 14:56:11.000000000 +0100
+++ udev-104/extras/rule_generator/rule_generator.functions	2007-02-12 13:17:39.000000000 +0100
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@
 	local linkre="$2"
 	local match="$3"
 
-	[ -e $RULES_FILE ] || return
 	local search='.*[[:space:],]'"$key"'"\('"$linkre"'\)"[[:space:]]*\(,.*\|\\\|\)$'
 	echo $(sed -n -e "${match}s/${search}/\1/p" $RO_RULES_FILE $RULES_FILE)
 }