From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>,
Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>,
Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>,
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"Udo A. Steinberg" <us15@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Meyer <thomas.mey@web.de>,
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Andrew Morton <akpm@lin
Subject: Re: [stable] 2.6.21 known regressions (v2) (for -stable team)
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:25:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070429012508.GA11629@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3647gchzh.fsf@maximus.localdomain>
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 11:21:54PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
>
> >> Also, assignation of ttyUSB#'s is volatile depending on phase of the
> >> moon when booted.
> >
> > That's always been the case, ever since the 2.2 kernel releases. Please
> > use udev if you want persistent device names for your tty USB devices.
>
> I don't know how udev (or anything) could help here. AFAIK the
> converters have no serial numbers and no other means to
> differentiate.
Some do have serial numbers, and others do not. You can also use hints
on which port they are plugged into, which is usually the best way to
name these types of things persistently.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-29 1:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-28 16:27 2.6.21 known regressions (v2) (for -stable team) Michal Piotrowski
2007-04-28 16:52 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-28 17:18 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-04-28 17:52 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-28 18:19 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2007-04-28 21:21 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-29 1:25 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-04-28 18:03 ` Thomas Meyer
2007-04-28 19:06 ` Diego Calleja
2007-04-30 21:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-30 22:35 ` Håkan Lindqvist
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