From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Pazzo Da Legare <pazzodalegare@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NEWBIE: how to change serial device<->port association
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:34:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090129163442.13a9a3f7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.1.10.0901291722360.13097@twin.jikos.cz>
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:22:54 +0100 (CET)
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > The hws have a different combination of kind serials and I would like
> > > to present the same ttyS* to applications. I need to have different
> > By having multiple different kernels for the different systems ? That
> > sounds like a really really complicated way to go about the problem when
> > you could just add a config file to your application.
>
> Another possibility is udev rule.
If its a simple naming choice then a symlink might do the job. What
Fedora and several other distros do is to create symbolic links from
"virtual" names like /dev/modem and /dev/cdrom to the relevant port using
ln -s
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-29 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-29 11:02 Pazzo Da Legare
2009-01-29 12:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-29 12:54 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-01-29 15:04 ` Pazzo Da Legare
2009-01-29 13:45 ` NEWBIE: " Alan Cox
2009-01-29 14:16 ` Pazzo Da Legare
2009-01-29 16:06 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-29 16:22 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-01-29 16:34 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-01-29 16:38 ` Pazzo Da Legare
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