probe-serial.c does not work on /dev/ttyACM0

Sjoerd Simons sjoerd at luon.net
Mon Feb 20 09:25:37 PST 2006


On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:20:02AM +0100, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> As for the confusion, that shouldn't happen. It might be that the port
> does something funky when opened. Our "probing" is simply asking the
> kernel if a hardware driver has allocated the port. I.e. it never does
> anything with the actual, physical port.

Apparently Windows-CE devices start the connection-initiation-sequence when
their port is opened and apparantly such a device only does that once per
connection. I've CC'd the debian synCE maintainer, he should know more details
about this problem.

  Sjoerd
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