> > Please explain. Especially contentrate on justifing why serial interfaces
> > aren't a tty device.
>
> No problem ;-).
>
> There is the hardware: in esp. the serial controller itself - this
> belongs
> to misc, becouse a mouse for example doesn't have to interpret any tty
> stuff
The same applies to the console keyboard, which is hooked to a standard
UART on certain systems as well.
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