Re: HOWTO use udev to manage /dev

James Simmons
2004-02-19T20:21:31Z

> 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?