Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

From: Martin Schlemmer
Date: Wed Aug 18 2004 - 13:56:43 EST


On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 08:42, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, ismail dÃnmez wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:22:10 +0200, Olaf Hering <olh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > /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.
> >
> > I don't think you understood me. /dev/tty is created as a char device
> > in 2.6.8.1 kernel. So I am sure udev is fine but it shows up as a
> > directory in 2.6.8.1-mm1 kernel and if I backup bk-driver-core.patch
> > its all normal again.
>
> Works fine here.
> Check you udev.rules file if some rule matches the pattern ptyp0.

Hmm, Ok, so I see we have pty devices in there as well. Ismail, what
tries to use /dev/tty anyhow?

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Martin Schlemmer

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