mdev help
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Tue Aug 15 21:36:03 UTC 2006
On Monday 14 August 2006 2:30 pm, Chey wrote:
> During the boot process I use mdev to populate /dev which is a ramfs.
> Everything seems to work fine with the exception of /dev/tty which
> seems to be in invalid device file. I determine it to be an invalid
> device file like so:
>
> @foobar:/# stty -F /dev/tty
> stty: /dev/tty: No such device or address
>
> Is this a bug or does this have something to do with my kernel?
Well, mdev is getting its values out of sysfs, ala:
cat /sys/class/tty/tty/dev
5:0
Could you cat the appropriate /sys/class/tty/tty/dev file and do an ls -l of
your /dev/tty and tell us what you get? (If that looks ok, then yes it's
probably an issue with your kernel .config or some such.)
Rob
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