Comment # 10 on bug 968573 from Dieter Jurzitza

I just see that things that used to work for decades are changed because
changing appears to be sexy.

IMHO it is a good idea to assign the modem device to a single identifier - and
the best way to do this is parsing the output of hwinfo and then assign a
device, thus keep the "software behind" entirely untouched. This reduces
maintainance efforts, reduces the risk of errors and so on and so forth.

However, I can only suggest what I guess is the right way to do - moreover I do
not consider it right to have a daemon run on each and every ttySx I do not use
it for.

What regards your second question: no, changing the device does not happen
often - but as readily said, I consider it much more efficient to determine the
right device prior to fiddling around with tty - devices in unit names.

What do you think about a feature request upstream to make
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dm-event.socket work on softlinks to devices?

Thank you for every input. Take care




Dieter Jurzitza