Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

James Simmons (jsimmons@transvirtual.com)
Tue, 15 May 2001 14:28:11 -0700 (PDT)


> Personally, I'd really like to see /dev/ttyS0 be the first detected serial
> port on a system, /dev/ttyS1 the second, etc. Currently there are plenty of
> different serial hardware with all their own drivers and /dev entries. For
> embedded systems with serial consoles, and also across architectures, this
> is a pain since the filesystem and namely /dev/inittab has to be adjusted
> for all different types of UARTs. This is not the case for every different
> type of NICs and that's a good thing.

I couldn't agree with you more. It gives me headaches at work. One note,
their is a except to the eth0 thing. USB to USB networking. It uses usb0,
etc. I personally which they use eth0.

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