[COLUG] Naming Convention for Physical Serial Ports

[Duane]

jep200404 wrote:
> Is there a naming convention for ttys that distinguishes physical 
> serial ports from consoles and virtual stuff? 
> 
> E.g., are /dev/tty[A-Z]* for physical serial ports and 
> other /dev/tty* for other stuff? 

Normal serial ports show up as ttyS* usually, but usb serial ports can
vary a fair bit depending how the distro has been pre-configured,
although with udev and other similar things you can alter the device
names I think.

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