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Jukka Marin (jmarin@teeri.jmp.fi) wrote:
: 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.

I'm not sure how it got there. The one I'm using now may have come
with 3.1 as oldser.device, but I'm sure I remember in earlier versions
following instructions to:

rename serial.device oldser.device

before copying the A2232 serial.device to DEVS:

: 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

That makes sense, I think.

: 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.

Um, why would anyone want/need to do that with serial.device?

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