From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: The Linux Device List Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 10:00:31 GMT
>In article <1993Apr26.214957.18819@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Rick Miller <rick@ee.uwm.edu> writes:
> 1.) TTY NAMING CHANGES! Final standard: {tty|cua}<card><port>
> I've caved in under the weight of reason, and am now listing
> the serial lines by *card* and *port* (rather than just by
> number from 0 to 63). Please, now that there's a reasonable
> standard, let's try to phase out the old "ttys0" and "ttyS0"
> names and start using "tty00"/"cua00" instead.
>
Oh no , how daft can we get. Has it occured to people that every time you
decide to make a change like this for no good reason you totally screw up
every piece of Linux documentation on the net, every install manual written
with people software and ruin any chance that someone is going to write a book
about it. It's not so much fine tuning as vandalism.
Worse than that how do you cope with cards like the accent async-4. Your
standard is complete junk at this point. My card has 4 ports and is my second
serial card. However two of those ports are the standard com1, com2 ports.
Now are you going to make the system spot that I have an async 4 and therefore
rename my identical ports to a different name to someone elses com1 com2. Are
you trying to ensure no ex DOS newbie can understand Linux ??
Alan