On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Michael Wolfson wrote:

> At 12:00 PM -0400 7/26/01, Greg Kritsch wrote:
>
> Erm, OK.  I guess the kernel can't do that for me, since /dev isn't mounted
> yet.
>
> I was thinking along the lines of:
> com0 at [cardbus hardware info]
> com0 attached to /dev/tty10
> com1 at [usb hardware info]
> com1 attached to /dev/ttyU01

Because the names of the device nodes are the result of a policy decision
made by the super user and which is denoted in /dev. i.e. device name
generation is not the business of the kernel. :-)

> That'd make life a lot simpler.  Maybe as a compromise, a simple program
> (called something like ttyinfo) which just spits out:
> com0 is /dev/tty10
> com1 is /dev/ttyU01
> zstty0 is /dev/tty0
> zstty1 is /dev/tty1

Sounds fine.

Take care,

Bill