Subject: Re: USB modem
To: Christoph Badura <bad@oreilly.de>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: current-users
Date: 08/17/1999 17:55:12
Christoph Badura wrote:

> lennart@augustsson.net (Lennart Augustsson) writes:
>
> >I've just added a driver for USB modems, umodem, and all the supporting
> >stuff (I hope).  The device nodes are called /dev/umodemN and can be
> >created with MAKEDEV as usual.
>
> Since these are tty devices why don't they have a "tty" prefix, like
> ttyUxx or something?

Hmm, good question.  I'd be happy to rename it, but in some sense
it's not really a "tty" since it has no way to connect a terminal.


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        -- Lennart