[HEADSUP] naming of tty devices.

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

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