[ On Thursday, January 24, 2002 at 16:57:32 (-0500), Lord Isildur wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: TTY virtualization driver
>
> 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. 

No, it's not just aesthetics -- we're talking about how the kernel maps
hardware to device major number that userland considers, for _all_
intents and purposes, identical in kind and use.

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