Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 18:45:52 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Great Renaming of ttyd* and cua* Yet Again Message-ID: <hLWeZglOi6@astral.msk.su> In-Reply-To: <199505051159.VAA20100@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans at Fri, 5 May 1995 21:59:00 %2B1000 References: <199505051159.VAA20100@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In message <199505051159.VAA20100@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Bruce Evans
writes:
>We now have or will have some new h/w tty drivers that have more consistent
>names for the devices:
> callin callout initial lock
>Cyclades: ttyc[0-v] cuac[0-v] ttyic*,cuaic* ttylc*,cualc*
>Riscom: ttyr[0-v] n/a n/a n/a
^^^^^^^^^
cuar[0-v]
>I think the names and control interfaces should be:
>Foo: ttyF[0-v] cuaF[0-v] ttyFi*,cuaFi* ttyFl*,cuaFl*
>This mainly affects sio. It's confusing to have `d' and `a' ttys being
>fore the `sio' driver. `s' wouldn't be much better because the sio driver
>is for xxx50 chips and not for all serial chips. I intend to reorganize
>the driver and this distinction will be clearer - sio.c will have the
>generic serial stuff and nsxxx50.c will have the xxx50 stuff; sio.c will
>be used by cy.c... So sio devices should be renamed ttyn*.
I think it will be easy to name xxx50 entries as ttyd? and cuad?,
it is many places in system which relays on ttyd? to rename all
of them.
>This doesn't solve the problem of naming lots of devices. I don;t have
>a good solution. The sio encoding limits the number of ports to 32, but
>this should change soon. The Cronyx device numbering takes too much
minor macro can be easily change to more devices: we have at leats
big letters unused.
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