From: bryan@uhura1.uucp (A. Bryan Curnutt) Subject: Re: WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE, ANYWAY?!? Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 04:41:46 GMT
In article <1993May10.191845.7498@sol.UVic.CA> pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
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>>I believe Rick overstepped his bounds as "Linux Device Registrar" --- a
>
>I would agree with Ted, except I don't see a need for a
>"Linux Device Registrar" at all.
I think Rick is providing a valuable service for people who want
to see the list of device numbers in a human-readable format without
digging through the kernel source or even through a MAKEDEV script.
A standard MAKEDEV script would be nice, and definitely a valuable
thing, but wouldn't really replace what Rick is doing now.
Thanks, Rick! Your list was useful to me the last time I had trouble
getting my serial ports to work. It's nicely formatted for quickly
looking up the information that I need. (The problem turned out to
be an IRQ conflict, but at least I _knew_ that I had the right devices
in /dev. No matter what their names were.)
-- Bryan Curnutt Stoner Associates, Inc. bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net (713)626-9568 voice (713)622-7832 fax