Re: Question about usb-serial port registration
Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.usb.devel |
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| Organization | Novell |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Am Freitag, 23. März 2007 21:18 schrieb David Brownell: > > > > It seems to me that if we cannot guarantee that > > > > the devices are identical, we must make sure they > > > > have different numbers. > > That means the numbers "x" in ttyUSBx will almost never > be re-used. To me that sounds like something that will > break lots of userspace code. Unfortunately yes. Recycling the numbers means that we assign new devices old names and _permissions_. The latter can be very dangerous. Regards Oliver ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel