Comm tables should contain additional information about the channels. Name at the very least, for printing in RedBoot if necessary, but the CygMon code also had some status / feature flags we might want to adopt [didn't get included initially since there was no way to access these data at the comm table level - it was kept in associative structures]
This bug has moved to http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org/show_bug.cgi?id>23306