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On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@g.o> wrote: |
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> And it's not udev that could rename the interface (hint, it wouldn't), |
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> it's the kernel, it _never_ guarantees the same interface "name" every |
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> time you boot. You might just be getting lucky, but really, PCI busses |
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> can be enumerated in different ways, USB devices can come and go and |
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> initialize sometimes slower one boot from another, and lots of other |
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> things can happen. |
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Not that anybody is taking requests, but it would be really handy if |
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serial ports were deterministically labeled. |
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I ended up having to hack my udev rules to hard-code a symlink a USB |
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serial device to a specific hardware USB port. It has broken once or |
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twice over the years, but has otherwise been reliable. Otherwise, if |
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you have more than one USB serial interface there is no way to know |
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which one will end up with what minor number, which is a bummer if |
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they aren't hooked up to the same thing. |
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Rich |
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