Hi,

Am Samstag, den 12.01.2008, 09:42 +0100 schrieb René Rebe:
> Hi,
> 
> On 11.01.2008, at 18:51, Michael Tross wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > Am Donnerstag, den 10.01.2008, 19:17 +0100 schrieb Martin  
> > Papadopoulos:
> >> hi there,
> >>
> >> since some weeks ago,
> >> the t2-trunk install target ( minimal or what ever) hangs on the  
> >> console
> >> before prompting for stone
> >
> > you may enter the terminal device name tty1 when the installer script
> > prompts for it, or use the latest SVN revision (I changed the init
> > script in r27495).
> 
> Hm.
> 
> -               ttydevs="vc/1 vc/2 vc/3 vc/4 vc/5 vc/6"
> +               ttydevs="tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6"
> 
> This will break all updates and compatibility between T2 versinos.
> 
> The nice feature of the devfs a-like "new-style" naming is that it keeps
> the /dev/ directory less crowded, sorted into sub-dirs.
> 
> I rather would like to fix the udev rules ...

this incompatibilty makes the upgrade path from branches 6.x/7.x to
8.0/trunk more difficult than it already was before. Upgrading between
branches is not an easy task anyway, so I believe this would be an
acceptable API break. Maybe it would be better to change the udev rules
to have both tty and vc/* entries.

The devfs style naming sure has advantages, but we dropped the other
devfs names already (like /dev/discs/*, /dev/ide/*, /dev/scsi/*). And
it's more comfortable for users to have a "common" naming, so we should
take into account what other distributions use.

Michael



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