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Subject[PATCH] vt: use /dev/vcs (not /dev/vcs0) in comment
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Both /dev/vcs and /dev/vcs0 were in use in the past, but these days
/dev/vcs0 is mostly historical curiosity.

* "/dev/vcs" is the name that has always been in the Linux allocated
devices list.

* "vcs" is the device name in sysfs since Linux v2.6.12.

* MAKEDEV(1) in Debian used to create /dev/vcs0 only, but /dev/vcs was
added in 1999: https://bugs.debian.org/45698

* MAKEDEV(1) in RedHat switched from /dev/vcs0 to /dev/vcs in 2000:

* Fri Oct 20 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>
- change vcs0 to vcs (ditto for vcsa0)

Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
---
drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c
index 160f46115aaa..1f042346e722 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/*
* Provide access to virtual console memory.
- * /dev/vcs0: the screen as it is being viewed right now (possibly scrolled)
+ * /dev/vcs: the screen as it is being viewed right now (possibly scrolled)
* /dev/vcsN: the screen of /dev/ttyN (1 <= N <= 63)
* [minor: N]
*
--
2.20.1
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