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

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>]

>
> 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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