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Subject: Re: Call-out ports renamed cuadX -> cuauX -- when?
To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru>
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11.10.2016 21:46, Warren Block пишет:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2016, Polytropon wrote:
> 
>> So the naming change mentioned in The FreeBSD Handbook, section
>> 25.2.1. Serial Cables and Ports:
>>
>>     Call-out ports are named /dev/cuauN on FreeBSD versions 10.x
>>     and higher and /dev/cuadN on FreeBSD versions 9.x and lower.
>>
>> doesn't seem to apply, even though the manpages state something
>> different.
> 
> I have not looked at that source, but some parts of the Handbook use
> entities for the current supported releases.  That would show the wrong
> release numbers here, if those entities were used.

Those numbers are hardcoded.
I've created a patch and opened a PR:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213386

-- 
WBR, bsam