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 1S8GYn-0003wo-Uj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:42:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0235DE0AD6; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:41:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E46E09CC for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:41:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so2893677bkw.40 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:41:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=LdHRqqaLw65kyCokrNx9bZkcqcMakug4OKc6Nk49L5Y=; b=tUZ1WvddqpNDIUU2DFsQ6oyYRnfkaleJ/gPJd6it/8xFBo9F90jogdTcNqy8M1fVTn Tzk6vMdt9iMqV8YmrsbJ5n1Uf+Td/exOa6UPPH/bjhi9kI/2dTBXsT/ox0GxWIBVoIyu +2zlW0jgOreK/59nZ0HIllHDkksqr5asJ/NeZ8Ss/AR7rVU/3zUx+0lCrCF2CwQQsB2t DcWiYT99p6DNV1SfAnr7IkhayLUHb9Yh0i89QpT9h+LAtEklC2blmGr4xjG6/HYhXJGj T5LAYJmZdnK13OgFVcRN03hU4SygwLFPjdllQrQTwN1ghTn14pVAWvi6AAkr3zXR/0I2 voJA== 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 Received: by 10.204.130.150 with SMTP id t22mr2905541bks.1.1331840488200; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:41:28 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.205.32.194 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:41:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <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> <20120315191730.GA15436@kroah.com> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:41:28 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: hQrVEuAk130NfpAv1iukovHhvYY Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /dev/serial/ (was "Let's redesign the entire filesystem!") From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 759db5aa-05b3-4af4-8ca3-57b29b0d61b3 X-Archives-Hash: 904991417f83a5bd41910ef9962f692d On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 03:04:36PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: >> # ls -l /dev/serial >> ls: cannot access /dev/serial: No such file or directory > > Do you have your serial device plugged in? =A0If not, it will not show up= . > Yup - it is plugged in, and the links in /dev/mythser show up fine. Since I've been recording my TV shows on the correct channels I have to assume the devices are working fine too. > You do know that USB buses can be dynamically renumbered depending on > the phase of the moon, right? =A0Be careful here... Hmm - this has been stable for me for years, compared to just using /dev/ttyUSBn. In any case, I have no idea why nothing shows up in /dev/serial. The only device nodes I can find for serial are /dev/ttyUSBn and /dev/mythser/n (the latter being from my own rules). Rich