Suggestion from the PR department

[Harald Welte]

Hi prom,

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 02:57:56PM +0200, Ingo Albrecht wrote:

> I've been noticing the neverending stream of serial cable issues
> popping up here.
> 
> To end this, I have a suggestion: how about checking the cable type
> via sysfs?

good idea.  I would definitely merge such a patch, considering that it
has appropriate #ifdef's around to make sure we don't break
cygwin/osX/bsd builds.

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- Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org>           http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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