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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.
    David Woodhouse writes:

    > A GUI PPP dialer should be
    > listing the available serial ports in the system whatever their names
    > are.

    How do you propose they do that? Neither kppp nor gnome-ppp seem to
    be able to do that currently. Gnome-ppp offers just /dev/modem and
    /dev/ttyS[0123]. Kppp offers those plus a whole pile of others, but
    neither found the /dev/ttyPZ[01] that I get with your patch applied.
    Gnome-ppp at least let me type in /dev/ttyPZ0, but kppp didn't seem to
    have that facility.

    > And nobody _forces_ you to use the name ttyPZ0. If you really want, you
    > can call it ttyS0.... just mknod /dev/ttyS0 204 192

    Sure I can do that, but that's beyond a non-technical user, who is
    precisely the person who won't know (and shouldn't have to know) that
    their computer has an 85C30 chip rather than a 16C550, or even what
    those numbers refer to.

    Paul.
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