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

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 22:31, Michael Guntsche <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> add   Â/module/8250_pnp (module)
> remove /devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS0 (tty)
> add   Â/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.

As Alan mentioned, we could serialize events which carry the the same
major/minor number, that should work around such behavior.

Thanks,
Kay
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