Hi all, Due to some hardware issues, I have to reset USB modems and a USB to serial converter on some of my servers. What I noticed is that /dev/ttyUSBXX devices are never reused: ttyUSB1 becomes ttyUSB3 e.g. and so on. This looks fine, but we have to do it rather often, so after a while we reach ttyUSB511 after which the system refuses to create new ttyUSB devices (I guess this is a hard limit in the kernel code). This issue seems unsolvable with anything less than a reboot. Is there a better way? Why are ttyUSB device numbers of devices that have already disappeared not reused? Tested on Debian 8 with 3.16 kernel. Kind regards, Erwin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
