Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Mar 1998 20:15:29 -0500 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Warning, cua2 opened, ... |
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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 00:07:40 -0400 From: "Garst R. Reese" <reese@isn.net>
is a deprecated tty callout device. Don't know who is issuing this msg. But the PPP 3.3.3 docs and the pcmcia docs say to use cua, and pcmcia-cs-3.0.1-12Mar. sets things up this way. Maybe whoever wrote the error msg. should send some mail and change the error msg to specify what it should be changed too. e.g. Please change cua to xxx. I presume it should be ttyS, and yes I also read devices.txt
No, the cua* devices are in fact the depcreated devices. If the PPP and pcmcia documentation say to use cua, now's a good time to get them fixed.
(And programs updated to properly open POSIX serial devices...)
This shouldn't come as a surprise to people; I've been only warning people that /dev/cua was a crock that should go away, oh, for several years now. I've had at least one getty maintainer ask if I could just completely eliminate /dev/cua support outright in 2.2 (since the incorrect use of cua devices by users caused him support headaches), but I thought that was a bit too harsh. Thus the warning...
- Ted
P.S. Paul Gortmaker's patches to display more information about which programs were using the /dev/cuaXX devices is a Good Thing. I should have thought of doing that, but I didn't.
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