How to make my udev rule work

Question

My USB device keeps changing its number in its name /dev/ttyUSB?.

I have seen this and this, and tried to do the same with no luck.

gauthier@sobel:/etc/udev/rules.d $ udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/ttyUSB1)

Udevadm info starts with the device specified by the devpath and then
walks up the chain of parent devices. It prints for every device
found, all possible attributes in the udev rules key format.
A rule to match, can be composed by the attributes of the device
and the attributes from one single parent device.

  looking at device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.1/2-1.1:1.0/ttyUSB1/tty/ttyUSB1':
    KERNEL=="ttyUSB1"
    SUBSYSTEM=="tty"
    DRIVER==""

  looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.1/2-1.1:1.0/ttyUSB1':
    KERNELS=="ttyUSB1"
    SUBSYSTEMS=="usb-serial"
    DRIVERS=="ftdi_sio"
    ATTRS{port_number}=="0"
    ATTRS{latency_timer}=="1"
[...]

Then I created a file /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules (it did not exist) and put this inside:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb-serial", KERNEL=="ttyUSB?", SYMLINK+="ttyUSBserial"

But did not get the symlink, even after udevadm trigger:

gauthier@sobel:/etc/udev/rules.d $ ls /dev|grep USB
ttyUSB1

How can I create a device name that does not change? What am I doing wrong with my rule?

Solution 1

If I had read correctly, I would have noticed the differences between the attributes of the device (KERNEL, SUBSYSTEM) and that of the parent device (KERNEL**S**, SUBSYSTEM**S**).

Adding the 'S's in the rule worked!

On the way, I also noticed that udev created a persistent symlink in /dev/serial/by-id/usb-*, through its rules in /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-serial.rules, which I could use instead.

Solution 2

oh, I followed your journey as well and I cannot get symlink to work even after I added 'S' after. It took me ages to find that you have to use the rules from the device itself (without an 'S'), or one SINGLE parent... I referenced 2 levels of parents so I failed to create the symlink.. Just to share with other guys who happened to have a similar case with me.

Comments

[Pilot6]

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[web.learner]

@Pilot6 This looks like an answer to me.

[Pablo Reyes]

This information was very useful: use one SINGLE parent.