Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?

[Paul Fulghum]

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@xxxxxxx

This explains why you are seein pty major devices
created in a /dev/tty directory.

Specifically the changes in drivers/char/tty_io.c
in function tty_register_device()

Try backing out that specific portion of bk-driver-core.patch

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Paul Fulghum
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