Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:17:11 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:

> Celejar wrote:
>> Not sure what kind of peripherals you have in mind, but they generally
>> won't get ttyUSBn addresses, unless they're USB-serial converters,
>> which contain chips meant to provide a serial / TTY interface to the
>> system.
>>   
> And which addresses would they get, if they were not using /dev/ttyUSBx?

Block devices (external DVD players or hard disks, USB flash, digital 
still cameras, voice recorders and many, many devices...) do not create "/
dev/ttyUSBx" but get mounted under "/media" (that is, standard "/dev/sdx" 
naming).

Modems (gsm/umts/dial-up) devices and printers do it that way (in fact, 
anything that emulates the "serial" port).

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón