Serial port device name changed in -CURRENT

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Sat Nov 27 01:56:45 UTC 2004


On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 07:39:40PM -0500, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In -CURRENT, the serial port device names have changed, i.e.
>  /dev/cuaa0 is not /dev/cuad0
> 
> The kernel debug info related to serial port debugging will
> need to be updated:
> /doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug/chapter.sgml
> 
> What is the best way to do this?  (i.e. inform users
> that older systems had cuaa0 and newer systems have cuad0, 
> or just change all references from cuaa0 to cuad0???)

The handbook documents -STABLE, so a note stating that it's different on
-CURRENT should be enough.

Ceri
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