Hi, I have had this issue a few times over the last few years where software like upowerd or modem manager starts probing a generic (FDTI based) serial device in the hope to find a UPS or modem on the other end.
Today it happened again and I stumbled upon on the following debian issue from 2010 [1] where the author thinks it is possible detect attached devices by sending data to it. I am an embedded developer and currently developing mostly on TI hardware (beagelboard /beaglebone) and also using usb2serial adapters for many things. Today a buspirate[2] got caught by upowerd and messed up my hole setup. For short it is dangerous to probe devices like that and I feel punished because some random UPS firm did not to their job well. I am loosing time figuring our why my development board doesn't get out of reset. Can probing generic serial devices please be disabled by default? Greetings [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586751 [2] http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
