Re: vax wscons setting questions

Izumi Tsutsui <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I have never given a thought to the fact that I need to add new entries 
> in /dev for new devices, it has always been a natural thing to do, 
> wscons or not, but it might be that people expect a devfs to be present 
> these days.

Note vax still use ttyw0 (at least in src/etc/etc.vax/ttys) for
wscons ttys, but it looks other ports have switched to using
ttyE[0-7] rather than ttyw[0-7] for wscons (actually wsdisplay) ttys:

 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/etc/etc.i386/Attic/MAKEDEV.diff?r1=1.64&r2=1.65
>> change wscons tty names to ttyE* to avoid clashes with the pty namespace

I think we no longer use pty in /dev (using ptyfs instead)
so there is no conflict, but I wonder if it's worth for vax
to use ttyE[0-7] for wscons in ttys(5) and remove "vt0" target
for ttyw[0-7] from MAKEDEV.

Thanks,
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Izumi Tsutsui
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