From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S8GBm-0007Po-Ti for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:18:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7564E094C; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:18:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3124E0830 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:17:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.44]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6711B21334 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:17:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.nyi.mail.srv.osa ([10.202.2.161]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:17:32 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=smtpout; bh=zARUBDRA/WlbXZ/fHk1dy4/04wQ=; b=OOF9qg7BxXsO5IyovNiEXB12QOvw pszAeg7C8G8uToz6VEs90lELT0lIvuoxXkVmBZCPlagtbP5FBH8K0+ZtTFf1esLY zcou6+oBGhLchSBjfCeH3XUSdXYG+B3vOY8PugF5EjeKOEQc17DYB5NAzGAsqwMc EizC8+W/oonerHE= X-Sasl-enc: jWWTNahTsQ9zsIi4KfqdWVNYLAJdiXABrBKAFfmEMQbD 1331839051 Received: from localhost (c-76-121-69-168.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [76.121.69.168]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E4F41482625; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:17:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:17:30 -0700 From: Greg KH To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] /dev/serial/ (was "Let's redesign the entire filesystem!") Message-ID: <20120315191730.GA15436@kroah.com> References: <4F5FE34A.4030609@gentoo.org> <4F6091CE.1050009@gentoo.org> <20120314144115.GA30606@kroah.com> <20120314145144.GC3200@ca.inter.net> <20120314150431.GA2033@kroah.com> <4F61CCD4.9000002@gentoo.org> <20120315144251.GB7777@kroah.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: e679fcb0-4e49-46a9-a0ca-99ae5bb1dbca X-Archives-Hash: f36991cf33805c6e1a98354fdbee8e83 On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 03:04:36PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Why not use the links in /dev/serial/ which are there for this specific > > reason? > > > > # ls -l /dev/serial > ls: cannot access /dev/serial: No such file or directory Do you have your serial device plugged in? If not, it will not show up. > Something in a newer version of udev perhaps? It went into udev version 136, way back in 2008, so odds are, you have it on your system... > Or would my defining my > own symlinks end up overriding some rule elsewhere. I just added > these lines to /etc/udev/rules.d: > SUBSYSTEM=="tty", DRIVERS=="pl2303", KERNELS=="4-1:1.0", > KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", SYMLINK="mythser/rca1" > SUBSYSTEM=="tty", DRIVERS=="pl2303", KERNELS=="3-3:1.0", > KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", SYMLINK="mythser/rca2" You do know that USB buses can be dynamically renumbered depending on the phase of the moon, right? Be careful here... greg k-h