Re: 1.2 modem devices

[CD Rasmussen <cdr@rasmus.Ipswich.Ma.US>]

This is an old issue for which we have not made a decision and written
down as policy.  I motion that all serial port modem traffic to be
used on /dev/ttyS*.  We need the consistency in the serial post lock
names. 

Thanks,
  Costa

   Subject: Re: 1.2 modem devices
   To: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)
   Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 20:06:00 +0200 (MET DST)
   From: "Peter Tobias" <tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>
   Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
   
   Bill Mitchell wrote:
   > On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Peter Tobias wrote:
   > 
   > >IMHO we should change our comm packages for Debian 1.2 to use
   > >/dev/ttyS* instead of /dev/cua*:
   > 
   > I'm hardly expert in standard practices in this area, but I'm
   > under the impression that the cua* devices are for dial-out.
   > 
   > This may not be definitive, but I note the following in
   > /usr/source/linux/Documentation/devices.txt:
   
   The reasons why this should be changed were part of the mail
   from Theodore Ts'o. The cua devices use a kernel based locking
   mechanism which can't be used in all situations. For example I
   have to use the ttyS* devices for mgetty/dip/minicom (dip and
   minicom won't work with the cua* devices). But that is much
   better explained in the mail from Theodore Ts'o.
   
   
   Thanks,
   
   Peter
   
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