On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Andrew Morton wrote: > (cc linux-usb) > > On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:04:57 +0200 Ferenc Wagner <wferi@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Since upgrading to 2.6.31-rc3 from 2.6.30, my ttyUSB device number > > keeps increasing on each replug. Output of udevadm monitor: ... > > Dmesg is available at http://pastebin.com/d516e3e00. > > Can anyone say whether this is expected behaviour? It depends on whether a program is still holding the old device file open when the replug occurs. > Does it actually cause any observeable problems? I expect things will > get ugly once it runs out of range. The numbers will get reused after the corresponding device files are closed. For further discussion, see this thread: http://marc.info/?t=124828810800002&r=1&w=2 Alan Stern -- 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
