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Am 30.08.2018 um 16:07 schrieb James Knott:
On 08/30/2018 09:53 AM, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
James, I'm the last one that wants to get rid of serial ports. We (at work) depend a lot on them. Still, creating 32 device files for millions of users where only a handfull has actually more than one or two installed is somewhat bloated IMHO.
As I mentioned, I suspect this sort of thing was inherited from Unix practice, back when serial ports were common.
No, it was not. The commit I mentioned increased the hard limit from 16 to 32 (in order to support more than one 8-port-serial board plus one or two onboard ports, see the mentioned bugzilla). But it increased the default number from 8 to 32 at the same time (which is something the few people with more than, say, 4 ports in their machine can set easily with a boot parameter).
Also, how much in the way of resources does this consume?
Well, not too much. But it can confuse users, like Peter's wine example clearly shows. Most people really would not expect their first plugged in usb-serial device to turn up as "com33:" in wine. -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org