Re: HOWTO use udev to manage /dev

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:21:25PM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > 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?

Userland apps use /dev names, not major:minor number pairs, right?  So
userspace should be just fine as long as you tell it the proper /dev
name to use.

thanks,

greg k-h
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