/dev/cua* and /dev/ttyS*
There have been various mailings here along the lines of
/dev/cua* names are deprepcated in favour of /dev/ttyS*.
I was just wondering why the change (and when). I thought it used to
be that ttyS* was dial-in and cua* was dial-out (or possibly
vice-versa).
I looked in /usr/src/linux/Documentation, and the only reference
I saw was in devices.txt which stated:
4 char TTY devices
...
64 = /dev/ttyS0 First serial port
...
127 = /dev/ttyS63 64th serial port
5 char Alternate TTY devices
...
64 = /dev/cua0 Callout device corresponding to ttyS0
...
127 = /dev/cua63 Callout device corresponding to ttyS63
I was just wondering, what exactly has changed, and why?
Richard
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