Re: Coding style - a non-issue

From: Maciej W. Rozycki (macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl)
Date: Fri Nov 30 2001 - 13:40:29 EST


On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Martin Dalecki wrote:

> > Please explain. Especially contentrate on justifing why serial interfaces
> > aren't a tty device.
>
> No problem ;-).
>
> There is the hardware: in esp. the serial controller itself - this
> belongs
> to misc, becouse a mouse for example doesn't have to interpret any tty
> stuff

 The same applies to the console keyboard, which is hooked to a standard
UART on certain systems as well.

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