Re: HOWTO use udev to manage /dev

[James Simmons]

> > 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.

Just want to make sure. 

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