linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.31-rc3: replugging USB serial converter uses new device node

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Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:38:33 +0200
From:	Ferenc Wagner <wferi@...f.hu>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: 2.6.31-rc3: replugging USB serial converter uses new device node

Ferenc Wagner <wferi@...f.hu> writes:

> Since upgrading to 2.6.31-rc3 from 2.6.30, my ttyUSB device number
> keeps increasing on each replug.

I forgot to stress that the number increases if I use the device
before unplug only.  Simply yanking/replugging the connector makes the
same device number disappear/reappear.  Maybe pppd does something
special, which makes the old device "stick", even though pppd dies at
the end of the session.
-- 
Feri.
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