[H-GEN] Spurious 8259A interrupt

[Robert Brockway]

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On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Steven McIntyre wrote:

>   Out of curiousity I wouldn't mind knowing the output from:
>   ls -la /dev/modem
> 
>   Months of working has taught me to look at the blatantly obvious first,
> as customers are usually very stupid :)
> 
>   Now that I've said I'd be very surprised if Redhat setup a symbolic
> link for /dev/modem to point to the first parallel port...

Agreed :)

/dev/modem thing was a bad idea from the start :)   Symlinks to device
files can cause havoc with file locking :)

I urge everyone to use the real device names in all cases.
Rob

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