On 2016-10-24, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Sun 2016-10-23 21:50:32 -0400, Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Current workaround is to only use USB serial adapters that actually have >> a unique serial number, and to set up a udev rule that creates a symlink >> in /dev/ttyUSB-* for each device: >> >> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-usb-serial.rules: >> KERNEL=="ttyUSB[0-9]*", ATTRS{serial}=="ABCDEF", SYMLINK+="ttyUSB-abcdef" > > this is the approach i've used in the past; i don't know that i've ever > noticed /dev/serial/by-id/ before. do you know when udev started doing > this?
Not sure when, certainly present as early as Debian jessie. > Do you have a patch that lets cereal work for you? this project has > been in maintenance mode for quite a while now. I made some attempts a while back, but couldn't find all the places it needed patching. For now using a udev rule to create a symlink in /dev/ works works well enough for me... figured I'd at least follow-up on the bug report to document the workaround. live well, vagrant
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