cvs commit: src/etc/etc.sparc64 ttys
Jake Burkholder
jake at locore.ca
Thu Sep 11 08:30:08 PDT 2003
Apparently, On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:14:25AM -0700,
David O'Brien said words to the effect of;
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:24:11AM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> > Jake Burkholder <jake at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > Log:
> > > Changed the ttyd entries to ttyu, which correspond to the device nodes
> > > created by uart(4).
> >
> > Is there a good reason for uart to use ttyu instead of ttyd? There's
> > no risk of conflict even if both uart and sio are present, thanks to
> > devfs, so why not use the traditional name?
>
> I hate to say it -- as an owner of sparc64 and amd64, alpha, & i386
> FreeBSD machines using serial consoles and thus affected by this, I agree
> with des.
>
I didn't pick the name and don't see that it makes much difference. You'll
have to take this up with Marcel.
Jake
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