Re: Idea: Super-Device Drivers

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
8 Mar 1998 20:58:18 +0100


In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980308112602.1350A-100000@hrs1-15.unh.edu>,
Chris Arguin <cpa@hopper.unh.edu> wrote:
>What with WinModems and WinPrinters coming out, this would make it easier
>for software developers to support those screwy things (assuming somebody
>wrote the driver). You just open /dev/modem and call the DIAL ioctl.

Yuk. Why not let the driver for the winmodem emulate the hayes command
set, just like the isdn code does?

>But how do you specify, for example, that
>/dev/modem is attached to /dev/cua1? Minor things like that would have to
>be solved. I think it may be worth it, however.

You don't. I have 2 modems in my machine; which one is /dev/modem?

Mike.

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