When I plug in a pl2303-based usb serial device, the device is supposed to appear as /dev/tts/USB0 (character device 188, 0). However, under kernels that I have tried from 2.6.20-git3 through 2.6.21-rc2-git1, /dev/tts/USB<some-random-number> is created, and attempting to open that file returns a "no such device" error. I have not seen that random number exceed 256, by the way. Doing "mknod /dev/tts/USB0 c 188 0" and then opening that file resulted kernel oops on the one kernel version on which I tried it (I think around 2.6.20-git11).
I remember seeing almost exactly these symptoms a few years ago. I imagine that this is some kind of tty unit number not be initialized, so I guess it's worth mentioning that all of the USB things in my configuration are built as loadable modules. Here is a list of the kernels that I have tried, and the results: 2.6.20 OK 2.6.20-git1 OK 2.6.20-git2 OK 2.6.20-git3 fail 2.6.20-git7 fail 2.6.20-git11 fail 2.6.21-rc1 fail 2.6.21-rc2-git1 fail There are moderate to substantial changes to drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c in 2.6.20-git3, and only a couple of innocuous looking lines changed in linux/usb/serial/. I will be investigating the usb-serial.c changes, if nobody beats me to a fix, although the time that I can put into this may be rather limited over the next few days. Adam Richter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel