Re: Serial: updated serial drivers

["Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>]

In article <20020707010009.C5242@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>,
Russell King  <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> - remove callout functionality, which has been marked as such for
>   a few years now.  tytso mentions that the only program this
>   might break is minicom, which should be fixed.

Minicom doesn't care which port you use. It might be that some
people have saved configs of 6 years old that still contain
references to a cua device, but that's a problem any serial
program has.

>From the manpage of any recent minicom:

       Serial port setup
          *A - Serial device
               /dev/tty1   or   /dev/ttyS1   for   most   people.
               /dev/cua<n> is still possible under linux, but not
               recommended  any  more  because  these devices are
               obsolete and many  newly  installed  systems  with
               kernel  2.2.x  don't  have them.  Use /dev/ttyS<n>
               instead.

Mike.