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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Serial Driver Name Question (kernels 2.4.x)
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Alan Cox writes:
> > > 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 ?

Dunno. Lost in the mists of time, when the world was young.

				Regards,

					Richard....
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