Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 12:52:43 -0500 (CDT) From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: peter@nmti.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gritching about serial port naming, plus Digiboard driver Q... Message-ID: <9509011752.AA26697@sonic.nmti.com.nmti.com> In-Reply-To: <199509011653.LAA09161@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Sep 1, 95 11:53:18 am
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> Yes, this is entirely true. I am thinking about this more from an > administrative point of view, I suppose.... but then again, how do you deal > with the case where somebody has installed > com1/com2 as tty00-01 minor #s 0,1 > BB2016 as tty10-1f minor #s 2-17 > and then decides to install com3/4 as tty02-03? mknod tty02 c maj 18 mknod tty03 c maj 19 > With the recent minor number range expansion, maybe it would make sense to > assign something like 64 or 256 ports per letter, and just be done with it > all...? That would work, too. And would encourage wider port names.
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