Ar Llu, 2006-07-10 am 08:41 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jon Smirl:
> The whole naming scheme encoded into the tty code is incompatible with
> udev. Udev allows renames and this code isn't aware of them.
The idea is not to break stuff.
> It does seem that we are missing a user space library call for
> converting a device number into a device name using the udev database.
A very large number of users don't bother with udev. Relying on udev is
not a wise thing to assume, especially in the embedded space.
Alan
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