RE: [Xen-devel] /dev/tty1 and udev

["James Harper" <JamesH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll try it out today.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maw48@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:maw48@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of
> Mark A. Williamson
> Sent: Friday, 1 October 2004 10:42
> To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: James Harper
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] /dev/tty1 and udev
> 
> I've tweaked the console driver and it the Xen console now appears in
> sysfs.
> udev should "just work" for now.
> 
> For those that are interested, I had to add a call to
> tty_register_device() to
> make this work.  Other console drivers that support devfs don't need
to do
> that, hence the apparent lack of sysfs magic in them.  It seems that
for
> consoles (and who knows what else), stuff that's registered using
devfs
> hooks
> also appears in sysfs(!).  In fact tty_register_device() seems to do
some
> apparently devfs-related things(!!)
> 
> It does seem insane :-) but don't worry - it does *not* require devfs
in
> the
> kernel and the tty *does* appear in sysfs(!!!).  Apparently the tty
layer
> is
> currently bonkers.
> 
> I'd expect udev to be OK now - could you please try it out?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
> On Wednesday 29 September 2004 04:12, James Harper wrote:
> > After installing udev, I don't get a /dev/tty1. I can create the
node
> > manually and it works but that's not really the right way to do it.
> >
> > Does anyone know offhand how to configure udev (under debian if that
> > matters) to create a /dev/tty1 so I can get something useful under a
> > console?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> >
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