On Sat, 01 Apr 2000 22:24:20 -0500, willy@thepuffingroup.com wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 04:17:11PM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
>> I've just gone from 2.2.13 to 2.3.99-pre3 with only a few problems. One
>> thing that I noticed AFTER I had re-assembled the box (don't ask whether
I
>> had to take it apart) and put it back into the closet is that if you run
it
>> headless (i.e. without a keyboard and VGA card and without even a serial
>> console) it doesn't create tty1, tty2, etc. devices, such that my console
>> gettys run amok.
>>
>> I now have temporarily disabled them in inittab, but I'd like to change
the
>> kernel's behavior like it was in 2.2.13. This latter kernel would create
the
>> tty? devices even when there wasn't any (VGA or serial) console
available.
>>
>> How would I accomplish this in 2.3.99-pre3? Any work-around?
>
>don't compile in devfs.
I'm not running devfs.
BTW, I've already tried to clarify what I was talking about in another
message, but you might have missed it.
By "kernel does not create device" I mean that the kernel does not support
the respective device nodes, i.e. the device nodes are "dead" and not backed
by kernel functionality.
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