usb serial port device naming

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Tuesday 17 May 2011 18:19:25 Christopher Hilton wrote:
> On May 17, 2011, at 5:18 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > If you run 8-stable, there is some information you can lookup via sysctls
> > of the USB devices, which tells you which port belongs to which device.
> > 
> > Use the serial number to identify your device, if your device has such a
> > value.
> > 
> > usbconfig -d X.Y dump_device_desc
> 
> Are you suggesting that one could use this information to config devd and
> perhaps automatically create a link to the correct port at USB attach
> time? I ask because I anticipate having to deal with this situation in the
> future.
> 

Yes, I think that is the idea. Currently this functionality is only introduced 
in 8-stable and 9-current.

--HPS