Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752261AbZJGVJQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 17:09:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751872AbZJGVJP (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 17:09:15 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:46547 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751398AbZJGVJO convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 17:09:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 22:10:01 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Kay Sievers Cc: Michael Guntsche , Alan Jenkins , linux-kernel , linux-hotplug Subject: Re: [BUG] No ttyS0 - Strange udev 8250_pnp interaction Message-ID: <20091007221001.7628c9aa@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20091007175403.GA335@trillian.comsick.at> <9b2b86520910071246r393f2afvacaa4d8f544508a8@mail.gmail.com> <20091007203121.GA432@trillian.comsick.at> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-14 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 761 Lines: 18 On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 22:53:12 +0200 Kay Sievers wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 22:31, Michael Guntsche wrote: > > add ? ? ?/module/8250_pnp (module) > > remove /devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS0 (tty) > > add ? ? ?/devices/pnp0/00:05/tty/ttyS0 (tty) > > That's pretty odd, that the loading of a module removes pre-existing > devices created by other code, and creates new ones with the same name > and major/minor. Quite normal. The serial code has always done this. -- 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/