Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:34:42 +0000
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
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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
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