site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Macintosh/20061025) Hi , As Quinn notes, nodes in /dev are a side-effect of having a driver instance. = Mike _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... sanjay yaragatti wrote: We have registered a serial port as character device.Can see the ports in /dev directory. But when I restart my system,the ports are lost.Is it the default behaviour? How can i make them persistent.I mean the ports should be available even after the m/c is restarted. Can anyone please tell me the way to do this? Load your device driver again, or install it in such a fashion that it is automatically loaded when your hardware (if any) is detected. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com