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Date:      Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:44:17 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>
Cc:        Jake Burkholder <jake@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/etc.sparc64 ttys
Message-ID:  <20030911174417.GB47739@ns1.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <xzpisnz68d0.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <200309110014.h8B0EHOX044603@repoman.freebsd.org> <xzpisnz68d0.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:24:11AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Jake Burkholder <jake@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> >   Log:
> >   Changed the ttyd entries to ttyu, which correspond to the device nodes
> >   created by uart(4).
> 
> Is there a good reason for uart to use ttyu instead of ttyd?  There's
> no risk of conflict even if both uart and sio are present, thanks to
> devfs, so why not use the traditional name?

The uart(4) driver creates a device node with its minor device
number. This number is unique within a device class only.

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net



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