Bug 86094 – devfsd not creating ttyUSB symlinks

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description John Koch 2005-03-21 00:01:09 UTC]

/dev/ttyUSB symlinks not created when they should have linked to /dev/usb/tts


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge devfsd
2. killall devfsd
3. /sbin/devfsd /dev

Actual Results:  
The /dev/ttyUSB symlinks are not created

Expected Results:  
Created /dev/ttyUSB symlink to /dev/usb/tts

Fixed problem by modifying /etc/devfsd.conf and adding 
REGISTER        ^usb/tts/(.*)$  CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname ttyUSB\1
UNREGISTER      ^usb/tts/(.*)$  CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink ttyUSB\1 

or

modify the compat_name.c file in devfsd and add the line to translate_table[]
{"usb/tts/", "ttyUSB%s"},    /* USB Serial Device */

[Comment 1 Chris White (RETIRED) 2005-03-21 00:14:58 UTC]

did you try looking at /dev/tts/USB[#] by chance?  That's where must of my usb-serial converter device nodes end up.

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2005-03-21 14:59:20 UTC]

added to portage, thanks