Both /dev/vcs and /dev/vcs0 were in use in the past, but these days /dev/vcs0 is mostly historical curiosity.
* "/dev/vcs" is the name that has always been in the Linux allocated devices list. * "vcs" is the device name in sysfs since Linux v2.6.12. * MAKEDEV(1) in Debian used to create /dev/vcs0 only, but /dev/vcs was added in 1999: https://bugs.debian.org/45698 * MAKEDEV(1) in RedHat switched from /dev/vcs0 to /dev/vcs in 2000: * Fri Oct 20 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <na...@redhat.com> - change vcs0 to vcs (ditto for vcsa0) Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jw...@jwilk.net> --- drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c index 160f46115aaa..1f042346e722 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 /* * Provide access to virtual console memory. - * /dev/vcs0: the screen as it is being viewed right now (possibly scrolled) + * /dev/vcs: the screen as it is being viewed right now (possibly scrolled) * /dev/vcsN: the screen of /dev/ttyN (1 <= N <= 63) * [minor: N] * -- 2.20.1
