Re: devices.txt errors

[Albert Cahalan]

On 7/9/06, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 02:49:19 -0400 "Albert Cahalan" <acahalan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Some names, like "/dev/iseries/vtty%d", are too damn big.
>
> As far as I know they were never used and certainly aren't now.  We did
> once use /dev/viocons/%d, but that went away a long time ago (before the
> code was in the mainline kernel).  Major 229 is now used by the pSeries
> Hypervisor consoles (/dev/hvc%d) and hopefully soon by a new iSeries
> hypervisor console with the same name.

Since that still isn't in devices.txt...

/dev/ttyHV%d would match the standard pattern better.
(assuming you only need 3-digit numbers)
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