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Subject: Re: Serial Driver Name Question (kernels 2.4.x)
To: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca (Richard Gooch)
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> > Oh dear.  Why cannot devfs expand the minor part itself?
> 
> Do you mean why devfs can't do it, or do you mean why tty_name() can't
> do it? As I said, tty_name() used to do it, but there was some problem
> with that.

What was the problem ?
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