On Nov 07, Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> wrote: > It seems to work OK, but the weird thing is that I got a bunch of random > useless device nodes in /dev as a result, and I'm not entirely sure > where they're coming from. The kernel. > The main offender is ptys -- I use udev for my devices, and normally > /dev/pts gets used for ptys, but with the new kernel there were suddenly > about 10 zillion old-style pty-related device nodes -- /dev/[pt]ty[a-z][0-9] So tell the kernel team to stop enabling CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS. > -- there are also a bunch of other random devices I don't want like > /dev/ram[0-9]. Rebuild a kernel without a ramdrive then. Or if you really can't live with these devices and can't be bothered building a new kernel, use something like: cat <<END > /etc/udev/rules.d/000_my.rules KERNEL=="pty[a-z]*", NAME= "" KERNEL=="ram[0-9]*", NAME= "" END > Where exactly are these created? Given that I'm using udev, I'm surprised > that which kernel I have installed even makes a difference -- shouldn't > device creation just be left up to udev? Is there a setting I should be > setting but am not? README.Debian may be a good way to start learning how udev actually works. -- ciao, Marco
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