Re: USB device allocation
Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:43:16 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> danielt@digi.com wrote:
> > > You should learn to solve the problems which really arise instead of
> > > doing academic exercises.
> > OK, I'll bite. Gimme 1024 serial ports. Yesterday.
> > That is 2048 devices (standard).
> > Easy with devfs, pretty convoluted with dynamic major numbers.
> ? This is an academic exercise. You are not going to tell there is such
> a box out there? BTW if you didn't hear it before /dev/cuxx's are obsolete.
Why are you making an arbitrary limit on how many serial ports I can have?
This sounds like "640k is enough for anyone".
-Dan
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