Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Jonathan Lundell
2001-05-16T01:52:26Z

At 9:34 PM -0400 2001-05-15, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>On Wed, 16 May 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 15 May 2001 23:20, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> > Personally, I'd really like to see /dev/ttyS0 be the first detected
>> > serial port on a system, /dev/ttyS1 the second, etc.
>>
>> There are well-defined rules for the first four on PC's. The ttySx
>> better match the labels the OEM put on the box.
>
>Then just make them be detected first.

Well, they traditionally start with 1, not 0, too. Or have cute
little icons and no text. Or aren't labelled at all. I'm using one
fairly well-known dual-port PCI serial board that silently
interchanged the two ports on a rev change, with no labelling change
at all ('cause there was no label!). Make your ttySx match *that*!

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/Jonathan Lundell.