Re: NEWBIE: how to change serial device<->port association

[Pazzo Da Legare]

Dear Alan,

Thanks again. I think I will follow your last (easier) advice.

p

2009/1/29 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:22:54 +0100 (CET)
> Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>> > > The hws have a different combination of kind serials and I would like
>> > > to present the same ttyS* to applications. I need to have different
>> > By having multiple different kernels for the different systems ? That
>> > sounds like a really really complicated way to go about the problem when
>> > you could just add a config file to your application.
>>
>> Another possibility is udev rule.
>
> If its a simple naming choice then a symlink might do the job. What
> Fedora and several other distros do is to create symbolic links from
> "virtual" names like /dev/modem and /dev/cdrom to the relevant port using
> ln -s
>
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