Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758204AbZA2Qit (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:38:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751942AbZA2Qik (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:38:40 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.231]:12266 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751940AbZA2Qik (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:38:40 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=J6aLSUBXJ3wNrOc5s0FAdCWeQvb5P/KTCM+bOnHjihs6+OnuT6FluVfJcLh9I3VVwq NB8mtbVMDiTBlaMQe3Dk0jhPvxpbsIi76Y5i65wYdnMUkPDX48yjoenbm6hZnxbnlfIw 0bAIHnoOfB6UeQm5D0XPoHyfINKGNuYq9PnV4= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090129163442.13a9a3f7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <1a26b4920901290302w5c9bb79cra29fda5e67cc96a4@mail.gmail.com> <20090129134537.12121834@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1a26b4920901290616r40c1edd0tec62d0e6bf24dc9@mail.gmail.com> <20090129160602.235840c2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090129163442.13a9a3f7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:38:38 +0100 Message-ID: <1a26b4920901290838u23a383b2x529f5c1e43211fa4@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: NEWBIE: how to change serial device<->port association From: Pazzo Da Legare To: Alan Cox Cc: Jiri Kosina , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1131 Lines: 30 Dear Alan, Thanks again. I think I will follow your last (easier) advice. p 2009/1/29 Alan Cox : > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:22:54 +0100 (CET) > Jiri Kosina 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 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/