According to Mike Bilow: While burning my CPU.
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> Richard Adams wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
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> RA> They are still supported, and will continue to be so for
> RA> quite a while, cua devices were and are still call out
> RA> devices, however you do have a point, BUT, reading the
> RA> Seriel-HOWTO will give the impression that /dev/ttyS# is
> RA> beter than /dev/cua#, which is one reason i said read it.
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> It is a myth that the "cua?" devices are for call-out and the "ttyS?" devices
> are for call-in. In fact, they are simply different ways of accessing the same
> ports from software, with "cua?" using older locking and other methods. There
> are really no cases in which use of "cua?" devices is preferred, and both
> call-out and call-in these days should be done with "ttyS?" devices unless you
> are using ancient hardcoded software for serial transactions. Even the
> "setserial" utility should be pointed at the newer "ttyS?" devices.
I agree, however the seriel documentaion howto states otherwise, i remember
a discussion a while back in the linux-kernel mailing list about this, as to
the outcome i cant remember, one point was that simply removing /dev/cua?
would break too many things at presant.
I do however share your views, normaly speaking if one makes a comment, that
the documantation is wrong, then it creates so much of a discussion the fine
points which were made at the start get lost.
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Regards Richard.
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Happy New Year, and may all your troubles be small (ones).
