[LinuxPPS] no rc.serial in F8

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 05:33:18AM +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> > So I just want to execute the setserial command for one serial port from
> > udev.
> > 
> > Tips for doing that are welcome.
> 
> Bill Nottingham wrote me:
> 
> Udo van den Heuvel (udovdh at xs4all.nl) said:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Why this change?
> > > What was so simple as making a text file with some familiar commands is
> > > now a different game.
> > >
> > > What would be the equivalent for:
> > >
> > > /bin/setserial -v /dev/ttyS0 low_latency hardpps
> 
> KERNEL="ttyS0", RUN+="/bin/setserial -v %k low_latency hardpps"
> 
> Or something along those lines. Realistically, for any other hardware type
> (whether it be scanners, PCMCIA, or whatever), we rely on udev to handle
> frobbing device-specific values. There's no reason that serial should have
> a specific exception.

This seems reasonable but doing as I suggested before seems to me more
configurable by the sysadmin.

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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