Re: USB peripherals are plugged in across time: how are /dev/ttyUSBx assignations done?
On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:17:11 +0200
Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> 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?
The driver will determine what sort of interface is presented. If no
driver picks up the device, no interface will be created. If it's a
disk, you'll get /dev/sdx; a webcam, perhaps /dev/video; a WLAN dongle,
perhaps wlan0 (all assuming that your kernel has a driver that
recognizes the device).
Celejar
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