Re: [BUG] No ttyS0 - Strange udev 8250_pnp interaction

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 21:46, Alan Jenkins
<sourcejedi.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Udev would have avoided the race prior to
>
> 82c785e "udevd: remove check for dev_t, DEVPATH_OLD takes care of that"
>
> (the "check" removed here used to serialize events based on the device
> major:minor number).
>
> So - udev probably needs to add the check back.

What are the two devices with the same major/minor but a different DEVPATH?

> It might also be the case that future kernels could set DEVPATH_OLD as
> suggested. ÂI don't know the gory details of 8250_pnp though.

The DEVPATH_OLD is only added when one and the same device was renamed
or moved, which isn't the case here, I guess?

Kay
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