Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Jakub Wilk <> | Subject | [PATCH] vt: use /dev/vcs (not /dev/vcs0) in comment | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:08:45 +0100 |
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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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