[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] news item draft: /dev layout cleanup

[Aaron Griffin]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Rogutės
Sparnuotos<rogutes at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Allan McRae (2009-08-01 22:33):
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Getting around to this again....
>>
>> [draft]
>> /dev layour cleanup
>>
>> The /dev layout has been cleaned up to comply to the device names
>> specified in the Linux kernel documentation. We had some legacy left
>> from our devfs days, which has now been removed.
>>
>> The most obvious change from a users perspective is the vc/*->tty*
>> transition.  The initscripts-2007.08 update requires adjusting the
>> /etc/inittab file to refer to tty* instead of vc/*.  Due to severe
>> system breakages if this file is not updated, this change will be
>> automatically handled by pacman.  The original /etc/inittab file is
>> saved as /etc/inittab.pacsave.  To be clear:
>>
>> package /etc/inittab -> inittab.pacnew (if needed)
>> system /etc/inittab -> inittab.pacsave
>> system /etc/inittab --sed--> inittab
>>
>> Make sure to check these files after the update and do any merging that
>> is required.
>> [/draft]
>>
>> Finally, are we going to do a quick update to initscripts and filesystem
>> before this is moved? There have been a few patches push to get for
>> these.  I can do that tomorrow if people agree?
>>
>> Allan
>
> As someone has already mentioned, it would be nice to mention the
> reasons for this (vc/*->tty*) change to please curious users...
> Why is this needed? Are /dev/vc/* going away?

It's in the first paragraph