[ros-dev] serial driver bug

[Robert Köpferl]

Be aware that it makes a difference  wether you have got a so called 
multi serial card or  several plain old serial HW. I may be wrong, but 
isn't 4 the limit. Due to 'reserved' ports for that kind of HW?

Royce Mitchell III wrote:
> 
>>>
>> Existing infrastructure doesn't create any symbolic links to com 
>> port.(At least on my machine...)
>> So, I can't see how we can break things by creating "COM1" alias for 
>> COM1.
>> COM3 and COM4 aliases still point to COM1 and COM2, and this can 
>> really break debug output and serial mouse.
>> Just renaming symbolic links can't solve the problem. In my opinion, 
>> the right solution is to disable COM1 and COM2 at all,
>> and make COM3 and COM4 symbolic links point to real COM3 and COM4. So, 
>> I will be able to hack on serial driver
>> without touching debug output :)
>>
> I've got a machine at work with... hmm... 6 or 8 serial ports... 
> something like that... I'd be happy to test it if somebody thinks it's 
> ready. If you want I'll give you details on exactly what hardware it is 
> when I get there today.
> 
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