RE: [MiNT] ext2fs

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Martin-Eric Racine
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 8:23 AM
> To: Michael Schwingen
> Cc: Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no; mint@fishpool.com
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] ext2fs
>
>
> On Tue, 4 May 1999, Michael Schwingen wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 03:50:46PM +0300, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
> > >
> > > Please convince Peter Rottengatter and others to upgrade their stuff
> > > to use /dev/name instead of requesting the available ports tru RSVF.
> >
> > Then how do I get a list of available serial ports without RSVF?
>
> Which proves my initial point:  we _need_ that cookie to be generated
> by the kernel, without the kernel interfering with the device drivers
> themselves.  Why others insist that RSVF is useless is beyond me...

Actually we need to clearly define what the application wants to see and
then define a *proper* kernel interface for it. I don't think that a cookie
is such a proper interface.

I think the initial question was: "which entries in u:\dev are usable in a
terminal program?". Correct?