From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clean up old names in tty code to current names
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:04:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B27A8F.6030105@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910607100854x250e9d3aga027ef5e156ec34e@mail.gmail.com>
Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> BSD has /dev/vc/0 right? I suspect that code is there to support BSD
> and make the app portable.
>
I think it was there to support devfs.
> As far as I know the only time Linux has ever had /dev/vc/0 was during
> the brief excursion into devfs land. At that time /proc/tty/drivers
> was modified to support devfs. But now devfs has been removed and the
> device has reverted back to tty0. But /proc/tty/drivers wasn't
> adjusted for devfs removal.
>
Agreed.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-10 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-10 4:11 [PATCH] Clean up old names in tty code to current names Jon Smirl
2006-07-10 4:54 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-10 7:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-10 9:44 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-10 12:41 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-10 13:10 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-10 13:03 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-10 13:12 ` CaT
2006-07-10 13:18 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-10 13:43 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-10 14:07 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-10 14:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-10 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-10 14:42 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-07-10 14:57 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-10 15:19 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-10 15:10 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-10 15:21 ` Russell King
2006-07-10 15:38 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-10 15:35 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-07-10 15:54 ` Jon Smirl
2006-07-10 16:04 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-07-10 22:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-10 18:13 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-07-11 21:54 ` Greg KH
2006-07-11 21:52 ` Greg KH
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2006-07-11 2:18 Albert Cahalan
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