Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 19:50:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@chen.ml.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: kern/6920: make /dev/vga a symbolic link to /dev/ttyv0 under DEVFS Message-ID: <199806112350.TAA06717@chen.ml.org>
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>Number: 6920
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: make /dev/vga a symbolic link to /dev/ttyv0 under DEVFS
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jun 11 17:00:00 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Luoqi Chen
>Organization:
>Release: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Environment:
3.0-current as of 6/10 with option DEVFS
>Description:
Some program (e.g. doscmd) expects /dev/vga to be a symbolic link
to /dev/ttyv0.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Index: syscons.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /fun/cvs/src/sys/i386/isa/syscons.c,v
retrieving revision 1.262
diff -u -r1.262 syscons.c
--- syscons.c 1998/06/07 17:11:02 1.262
+++ syscons.c 1998/06/11 23:42:48
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@
static scr_stat *console[MAXCONS];
#ifdef DEVFS
static void *sc_devfs_token[MAXCONS];
+static void *sc_vga_devfs_token;
static void *sc_mouse_devfs_token;
static void *sc_console_devfs_token;
#endif
@@ -800,6 +801,7 @@
for (vc = 0; vc < MAXCONS; vc++)
sc_devfs_token[vc] = devfs_add_devswf(&scdevsw, vc, DV_CHR,
UID_ROOT, GID_WHEEL, 0600, "ttyv%n", vc);
+ sc_vga_devfs_token = devfs_link(sc_devfs_token[0], "vga");
sc_mouse_devfs_token = devfs_add_devswf(&scdevsw, SC_MOUSE, DV_CHR,
UID_ROOT, GID_WHEEL, 0600, "sysmouse");
sc_console_devfs_token = devfs_add_devswf(&scdevsw, SC_CONSOLE, DV_CHR,
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