usb_id: fix switch statement for video type

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+udev 134
+========
+Bugfixes.
+
+The group "video" is part of the default rules now.
+
 udev 133
 ========
+Bugfix for kernels using SYSFS_DEPRECATED* option and finding parent
+block devices in some cases. No common distro uses this option anymore,
+and we do not get enough testing for this and recent udev versions. If
+this option is not needed to run some old distro with a new kernel,
+it should be disabled in the kernel config.
+
+Bugfix for the $links substitution variable, which may crash if no links
+are created. This should not happen in usual setups because we always
+create /dev/{block,char}/ links.
 
 The strings of the parsed rules, which are kept in memory, no longer
-contain duplicate entries, or duplicate tails of strings. This reduces
-the total size of a huge distro rule set to 0.08 MB, compared to the
-1.2MB of udev version 130.
+contain duplicate entries, or duplicate tails of strings. This, and the
+new rules parsing/matching code reduces the total in-memory size of
+a huge distro rule sets to 0.08 MB, compared to the 1.2MB of udev
+version 130.
 
 The export of DEVTYPE=disk/partition got removed from the default
-rules. This value is available from the kernel.
-The pnp shell script modprobe hack is removed from the default rules.
-ACPI devices have proper modalias support and take care of the same
-functionality.
+rules. This value is available from the kernel. The pnp shell script
+modprobe hack is removed from the default rules. ACPI devices have _proper_
+modalias support and take care of the same functionality.
 Installations which support old kernels, but install current default
-udev rules may need to add that to the compat rules file.
+udev rules may want to add that to the compat rules file.
+
+Libvolume_id now always probes for all known filesystems, and does not
+stop at the first match. Some filesystems are marked as "exclusive probe",
+and if any other filesytem type matches at the same time, libvolume_id
+will, by default, not return any probing result. This is intended to prevent
+mis-detection with conflicting left-over signatures found from earlier
+file system formats. That way, we no longer depend on the probe-order
+in case of multiple competing signatures. In some setups the kernel allows
+to mount a volume with just the old filesystem signature still in place.
+This may damage the new filesystem and cause data-loss, just by mounting
+it. Because volume_id can not decide which one the correct signature is,
+the wrong signatures need to be removed manually from the volume, or the
+volume needs to be reformatted, to enable filesystem detection and possible
+auto-mounting.
 
 udev 132
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-
 Fix segfault if compiled without optimization and dbg() does not get
 compiled out and uses variables which are not available.