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hugh@hermes.dciem.dnd.ca (Hugh D. Gamble) writes:

>Does anyone have experience running the A2232 with its serial.device
>concurrently with a replacement serial device for the motherboard
>port? I tried a couple of ways to get this to work with 8n1.device
>with no luck. I didn't try naming 8n1.device to oldser.device and
>letting serial.device call it yet. I suspect I'd get better
>performance if I could call the replacement serial device directly
>anyway. 

You have to patch the device name inside the device file as well.  The
oldser.device has 'oldser.device' has the same name inside the file.
If you just rename the file, the system will load it into memory, but
the driver still looks like '8n1.device' when anyone wants to open it
(because the device node in RAM gets its name from within the device
file).  However, it may not be easy to patch the name because 'oldser'
needs more bytes than '8n1'.  In case of serial.device this was not
a problem.

  -jm

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