[HEADSUP] naming of tty devices.
Alexey Dokuchaev
danfe at nsu.ru
Tue Sep 21 03:42:43 PDT 2004
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:38:45AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
> My suggestion is the following:
>
> All drivers will offer "tty${something}" devices, and
> generally ${something} will consist of a letter followed
> by a number, possibly in base 36 ([0-9a-z]).
>
> All drivers which attach to external equipment via a serial
> connector should also offer "cua${thesamething}". "Embedded"
> serial ports, pseudo drivers etc, do not have to offer the
> "cua" if DCD state on open is not an issue.
>
> The init and lock devices will be called ${base_device}.[init,lock]
> and they will possibly be provided by on-demand devices so that
> they do not clutter up /dev.
What about contracting `.init|lock' to just `i|l', like we have with all
(most) other device names out there (i.e., acd0t0, not acd0track0) -- long
device names is a thing to avoid, IMHO.
./danfe
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