From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: USB Smart Card reader
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:41:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120225164118.GA21495@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAMvbhFzJv4EpQt4LavFeFusJsCDrFQ1EGhCdvgPG9q63s2AyA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:01:17AM +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have done some development work on the iuu_phoenix.c driver in the
> Linux kernel.
> The iuu_phoenix is a smart card reader.
> The smart card reader can be given a unique identification string of
> 16 characters/hex bytes. This ID can be read when the card reader is
> inserted into the USB port.
> I would like to be able to set up device names in /dev so that when
> inserting a card reader into the USB port, it always will appear with
> the same unique name in /dev.
> Similar to the by-uuid used for hard disk drives.
Your distro should already have /dev/serial/ which provides this for you
automatically. Have you used that and found it somehow lacking?
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-25 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-25 10:01 USB Smart Card reader James Courtier-Dutton
2012-02-25 16:41 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-02-27 20:17 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2012-02-27 20:36 ` Greg KH
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