usb serial port device naming

[Charles Sprickman]

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.

My question as well...

Thanks,

Charles

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