>> The CH340 is a well-known device, and the usbserial module along with >> something like cp210x should deal with multiple devices, assigning them >> ttyUSBx device numbers. [...] > I doubt all that baud rate, stop bits and parity dance we know and love > from the RS232s of yore are necessary with TTYUSBs. We are talking to > an abstraction layer in the kernel anyway.
The CH340 is a real USB<->serial converter, so somewhere inside the device is a real serial connection which speaks at a specific speed and the CH340 probably has to match that speed if we want to get valuable output, I suspect. IOW, I think it's not "just an abstraction layer". Stefan