Re: [PATCH] Clean up old names in tty code to current names

Jan Engelhardt
2006-07-10T14:18:12Z

>
> 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
> serial /dev/ttyS 4 64-67 serial
> pty_slave /dev/pts 136 0-1048575 pty:slave
> pty_master /dev/ptm 128 0-1048575 pty:master
> unknown /dev/tty 4 1-63 console
>

My word here too :)

I doubt that userspace can do something useful with the "/dev/vc/0"
line when there is no devfs around at all.

Like below.

> Nothing in that patch has anything to do with udev support. It is just
> trying to make things match my current devices. When we got rid of
> devfs /dev/vc/0 became /dev/tty0.

Jan Engelhardt
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