Linux-Hams archive - January 1999: Re: mknod help

Re: mknod help

Richard Adams (omjn@concate.com)
Sat, 2 Jan 1999 15:38:42 +0000 (GMT)

According to Alex Holden: While burning my CPU.
>
> On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
> > According to revl.zxda@niandc.ne.jp: While burning my CPU.
> > > Could someone show me an example of how to use mknod to create device files
> > > for /dev/cua4 and /dev/cua5. The 'man mknod' listing does not provide an
> > > example and I'm not getting it.
> > mknod -m 666 /dev/cua4 c 5 68
> > mknod -m 666 /dev/cua5 c 5 69
>
> The cua ports are deprecated now. Use ttyS?? instead.
> To find the numbers (if you don't want to use the MAKEDEV script), read
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt

They are still supported, and will continue to be so for quite a while, cua
devices were and are still call out devices, however you do have a point,
BUT, reading the Seriel-HOWTO will give the impression that /dev/ttyS# is
beter than /dev/cua#, which is one reason i said read it.

Another point was about reading the howto was because it explains about
using MAKEDEV which is so easy to use, and will create just about all known
devices "without" the user knowing about the magic numbers.

Anyway thanks for pointing out that /dev/cua?? "will" become redundant in
the fucther.

>
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Regards Richard.
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