Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 May 2001 14:31:48 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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James Simmons wrote: > > > Personally, I'd really like to see /dev/ttyS0 be the first detected serial > > port on a system, /dev/ttyS1 the second, etc. Currently there are plenty of > > different serial hardware with all their own drivers and /dev entries. For > > embedded systems with serial consoles, and also across architectures, this > > is a pain since the filesystem and namely /dev/inittab has to be adjusted > > for all different types of UARTs. This is not the case for every different > > type of NICs and that's a good thing. > > I couldn't agree with you more. It gives me headaches at work. One note, > their is a except to the eth0 thing. USB to USB networking. It uses usb0, > etc. I personally which they use eth0. >
"ethX" is only used for Ethernet. Other types of network devices use other names.
Personally, I would also like to see network devices manifest in the filesystem namespace like everything else.
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