This is concerning /dev/ttyS* (and probably /dev/ttyUSB*, too): udev-070 sets (in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules) the group ownership for serial ports to "tty". /sbin/MAKEDEV (from baselayout-1.12.0_pre8-r2) sets the group ownership for these ports to "dialout". For consistency, static /dev should be changed to "tty", or udev should be changed to "dialout". (Or both should be changed to "uucp".) See also bug #108069 and bug #108088.
switching both udev and MAKEDEV to uucp sounds good to me ... both debian and fedora are doing that now ... how about it Greg ?
What, and break everyone's systems that rely on the tty group for their users for these devices? That's really not a good idea...
*shrug* damned if you do and damned if you dont
(In reply to comment #2) > What, and break everyone's systems that rely on the tty group for their users > for these devices? That's really not a good idea... Hm, udev rules are config-protected. So nothing should break for existing systems.
dah-dit-dah Any news on this issue?
Well, someone needs to just make a decision about what the group should be for tty devices, and I'll modify udev to go along with it. My opinion is to stick with what we have now.
as i said in comment #1, i think changing to uucp is the way to go
is it possible that this "intermittent" device problem is responsible for making serial mice jumpy and totally unusable in X11 with the current 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 kernel? is so, I think that the severity of the problem should be upgraded to "blocker." its a definite deal breaker.
No, this should have nothing to do with intermittant use with X, sorry.
baselayout-1.13 has transitioned to a sep makedev package which uses 'uucp'
baselayout-1.13.0_alpha11 is in the tree which now deps on sys-apps/makedev.
Fixed in udev-104-r4.
