Re: Question about usb-serial port registration

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 07:18:50PM -0700, John wrote:
> 
> --- Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > As for applications that foolishly use ttyUSB0 only,
> > well, they kind of deserve the breakage.  
> > It is pretty trivial to work around that issue
> > with udev if they want to (and it's recommended 
> > that they fix it that way...)
> 
> In this case somebody should fix usb_console_setup,
> because it has the following lines:
> 
> /* grab the first serial port that happens to be
> connected */
> serial = usb_serial_get_by_index(0);
> if (serial == NULL) {
> 	/* no device is connected yet, sorry :( */
> 	err ("No USB device connected to ttyUSB0");
> 	return -ENODEV;
> }

The usb-serial console is a different story, that happens at boot time,
where you should have a ttyUSB0.  If not, it doesn't work.

Not to say it really works well anyway, but that's a different story :)

thanks,

greg k-h

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