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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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David Woodhouse writes:

> And you always will be. The amount of pain involved in implementing
> this, just so that people can call their serial port 'ttyS0', is _far_
> more than it's worth. It could be done, but it's a completely pointless
> waste of time and effort. 

Avoiding breaking userspace is a completely pointless waste of time
and effort?  Linux is ready for the desktop?  Suuuure it is...

Paul.