Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:42:26 +0800 | From | "Antonino A. Daplas" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Clean up old names in tty code to current names |
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Jon Smirl wrote: > On 7/10/06, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: >> Ar Llu, 2006-07-10 am 09:03 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jon Smirl: >> > I agree with this. I made a mistake with the pts vs pty, why not just >> > help me fix the mistake instead of rejecting everything? Some the of >> > the info being reported in /proc/tty/drivers is wrong (vc./0 - from >> > the devfs attempt?). or missing. >> >> What are you trying to achieve and where are you trying to get. If you >> want better info for the tty layer then get the new info working in >> sysfs first. Then when people are generally using sysfs you can worry >> about cleaning up/removing/breaking the old stuff. >> > > Before the change /proc/tty/drivers shows this: > > [jonsmirl@jonsmirl ~]$ cat /proc/tty/drivers > /dev/tty /dev/tty 5 0 system:/dev/tty > /dev/console /dev/console 5 1 system:console > /dev/ptmx /dev/ptmx 5 2 system > /dev/vc/0 /dev/vc/0 4 0 system:vtmaster
vtmaster was /dev/tty0 in 2.2.x, changed to /dev/vc/0 probably because of devfs. I would tend to agree with the change of at least this part.
A few apps do rely on /proc/tty/drivers for the major-minor to device name mapping. /dev/vc/0 does not exist (unless created manually) without devfs.
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