Re: HOWTO use udev to manage /dev

[James Simmons]

> udev can create different /dev nodes for these devices.  But as udev
> does not modify the kernel code at all, it can not "solve" the
> duplication of numbers in the kernel at all.  Nor is it meant to.

Okay. If I change the major number of serial ttys inside the kernel 
of course udev would properly handle this. Now the question is would this 
break userland applications using the serial port?


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