how does userland care, other than the names? 
you want only one major number for all serial devices.. but whats the 
point of that? it's merely one person's preference on aesthetics versus 
another, whereas the device numbers do have real meaning. 


On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> [ On Thursday, January 24, 2002 at 16:11:57 (-0500), Lord Isildur wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: TTY virtualization driver
> >
> > but if people want the files in /dev to have different names,
> 
> because that's not the issue -- very very very far from it.  The actual
> naming of the nodes is secondary.
> 
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