Re: ttyS0 vs cua0

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca> writes:

> How universal is the use of ttyS0 instead of cua0 in other
> distribution (e.g. Red Hat)?  I told the upstream maintainer 
> of powstatd (a UPS monitor) that I has changing cua0 to ttyS0 in
> the docs and config file for Debian, and he said he'd changed it
> upstream too if that's what everybody uses.
> 
> Docs such as the UPS-HOWTO use either at various places.
> The Serial-Programming-HOWTO uses only ttyS0 style.

cua0 is deprecated, and is not going to be supported in future
versions of the kernel, so tell him to go ahead and change.

Cheers, Phil.