From: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Ts'o) Subject: Re: Name That Device! Date: 12 Feb 1993 01:18:19 -0500
From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar)
Date: 10 Feb 1993 20:13:07 GMT
Okay folks... The new kernel supports dial-up tty's with Major # 5.
So what do we *call* these devices? Is there a standard, somewhere??
I've been calling them /dev/cua??, since that's what Sun calls their
dial-out devices. They don't need to be called /dev/ttyXX, since they
will never be used as terminal lines --- that's what the /dev/ttyS??
lines are for.
- Ted