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Re: Bug#325192: udev generates outrageous numbers of ttyS nodes



reassign 325192 linux-2.6
thanks

On Aug 26, Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote:

> On my system, udev generates ttyS0 through ttyS47.  Static /dev contains only
> ttyS0 through ttyS3.  I can't figure out what the point of this is.  I don't
> have any serial terminals connected, let alone 48 serial lines.  What could
> be causing this, and can it be stopped?
Your kernel does, probably fooled by a broken BIOS or ACPI table.
You can work around it with something like:

KERNEL=="ttyS[2-9]|ttyS[1-9]?", OPTIONS+="ignore_device"

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ciao,
Marco

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