From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267364AbUHRGYd (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2004 02:24:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268658AbUHRGYd (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2004 02:24:33 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:24982 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267364AbUHRGYb (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2004 02:24:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:22:10 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Paul Fulghum Cc: ismail =?utf-8?Q?d=C3=B6nmez?= , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems? Message-ID: <20040818062210.GB22332@suse.de> References: <2a4f155d040817070854931025@mail.gmail.com> <412247FF.5040301@microgate.com> <2a4f155d0408171116688a87f1@mail.gmail.com> <4122501B.7000106@microgate.com> <2a4f155d04081712005fdcdd9b@mail.gmail.com> <41225D16.2050702@microgate.com> <2a4f155d040817124335766947@mail.gmail.com> <41226512.9000405@microgate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <41226512.9000405@microgate.com> X-DOS: I got your 640K Real Mode Right Here Buddy! X-Homeland-Security: You are not supposed to read this line! You are a terrorist! User-Agent: Mutt und vi sind doch schneller als Notes (und GroupWise) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 17, Paul Fulghum wrote: > ismail dönmez wrote: > > >>That does not look right. > >>Char dev 3 is the pty major. > >>This could be left over from running with the controlling-tty patch. > >> > >>Try recreating /dev/tty as a char special file: > >>mknod -m 666 /dev/tty c 5 0 > > > > > >Hmm I use udev and /dev/tty dir is created again at startup. So > >something else is broken too I think. > > This is almost certainly related to the addition > of pty devices to devfs in bk-driver-core.patch > Change is by olh@suse.de > > This explains why you are seein pty major devices > created in a /dev/tty directory. /dev/tty is supposed to be char c 5 0, /class/tty/tty/dev will tell udev how to create it, see man 4 tty. No idea who came up with the bright idea to put legacy bsd devices in a subdir. Documentation/devices.txt shows that my patch is ok, it handles up to 256 device nodes. If you are using udev, file a bugreport for your distros package. In the meantime, remove the offending line from your udev.rules file. -- USB is for mice, FireWire is for men! sUse lINUX ag, nÜRNBERG