From: krej@electrum.kth.se (Kristian Ejvind) Subject: Re: The Linux Device List Date: 28 Apr 1993 23:58:47 GMT
In article <1993Apr26.214957.18819@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Rick Miller <rick@ee.uwm.edu> writes:
> 1.) TTY NAMING CHANGES! Final standard: {tty|cua}<card><port>
> I've caved in under the weight of reason, and am now listing
> the serial lines by *card* and *port* (rather than just by
> number from 0 to 63). Please, now that there's a reasonable
> standard, let's try to phase out the old "ttys0" and "ttyS0"
> names and start using "tty00"/"cua00" instead.
Aaargh! uuuuuhhh. OH NOO!
These were my first reaction when I saw the proposed change. I think
it's bad to change the tty naming conventions again and IMHO this is a
change to the worse. The naming where tty1-tty9 is VC 1-9 and tty10
*isn't* VC 10 is very bad indeed. tty10-12 should definitely be VC
10-12!! My suggestion is not to change anything which already is defined
and to solve the problem with several serial communication boards by
naming them ttyS<port> ttyT<port> ttyU<port> and so on in the same
manner as tty[p-s]* are named. The advantages with this naming is that
1) it won't affect anyone without several serial boards, which will
save us from MANY MANY questions as "Why doesn't this comm prg
work?" and equal ones.
2) It uses the same naming as earlier named tty's (the tty's and pty's).
3) it is clearer than the proposed naming, all serial lines have a
capital letter, nonserial don't.
/Kristian