From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:28:52 +0000 Subject: Re: HOWTO use udev to manage /dev Message-Id: <20040219202852.GB14549@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <20040219194610.GB13934@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: James Simmons Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:21:25PM +0000, James Simmons wrote: > > > udev can create different /dev nodes for these devices. But as udev > > does not modify the kernel code at all, it can not "solve" the > > duplication of numbers in the kernel at all. Nor is it meant to. > > Okay. If I change the major number of serial ttys inside the kernel > of course udev would properly handle this. Now the question is would this > break userland applications using the serial port? Userland apps use /dev names, not major:minor number pairs, right? So userspace should be just fine as long as you tell it the proper /dev name to use. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel