Ignore usb device?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:47:47 -0500,
  Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to get linux to ignore a specified usb device?
> 
> My new android phone sends /var/log/messages into a tizzy, but
> the only reason I connected was to charge the phone :-).
> 
> I'd like to tell my system to utterly ignore
> 
>    idVendor=04e8, idProduct=681d
> 
> Can I do that somehow (perhaps weird usb quirk parameters
> on the kernel boot options or something?)

Possibly you can do it with udev rules. I don't know specifics though.